rubber-necking

Example Sentences

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Erskine, also 31, deadpans while joining in on the rubber-necking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2019

“MSNBC’s ratings may go up because of the rubber-necking factor to see how he does and because of the residual loyalty he has from his remaining fans.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2015

I'd never have spotted him, if I hadn't been rubber-necking at the crowd, sort of counting scalps.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

At "afternoon quarters"—1:30—a drill, new to us, was taught; called by the officers "physical drill," and by the men "rubber-necking."

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell

There is sure to be some fellows rubber-necking here soon.

From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)