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Upon visiting the day cares, Shirley and his middle-aged male partner, David, discover the centers have locked their doors and won’t let them in to gawk at the children.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

Some tourists are just people on vacation there to gawk, while others are influencers there for content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

Nearly 100 reporters still showed up to gawk at their greatness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Biopics should not be a lookalike contest, where audiences gawk at the screen, inspecting the performance with opera binoculars to see just how closely an actor can come to mirroring their real-life subject.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024

We laugh so hard, people stop and gawk at us, but we ignore them.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

The crowd gawks at her — devout eyes wide, lips parted as if witnessing a miracle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Anyone who sits through the end credits of a franchise movie and gawks at screens filled with hundreds of names of special effects and visual effects crew knows most of the is digitally animated.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024

You can’t get strangers to help you lay that foundation — the world gawks, it can’t help itself — but you can ask the grandmas and certainly the teachers to.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022

Carolyn Hax advises a woman whose husband gawks at pretty women online and describes himself as an arrogant liar.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2017

A middle-aged couple sitting on a bench by the front door gawks unabashedly.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

In addition to a steady stream of sellers, the machine also drew the attention of bystanders who gawked at the large sums of money changing hands at the unassuming corner of the mall.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

Movie stars didn’t like being gawked at by tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Sunday, onlookers gawked at a charred hilltop, where newly fallen leaves had already obscured the scorched earth of Friday’s 2-acre brushfire.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024

Before a Syracuse-Virginia Tech game matching the alma maters of his great uncle and father, Sturdivant gawked at the size of the players, the eighth-grader never thinking he could measure up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Maybe it was the fact that on the mornings we entered campus together, I gawked at her like she was a movie star gracefully making her way down the red carpet.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Barnum gradually expanded these gardens to include museums and theaters, where families could do everything from gawking at unusual people or animals to watching performances of fairy-tale characters like Aladdin or Goldilocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

People watching from inside the building could be seen gawking and tapping at the glass, as Honnold moved past the enclosed observation deck on the 89th floor.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

The 66-year-old Sydneysider remembers gawking at enormous great white sharks hauled in by fishermen as a kid, back in the days the now-protected species could still be legally hunted.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

But if past habits hold, we may never be done with gawking at the well-heeled.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

She tells us get away from the table and stop gawking at him having his tea and tells him to stop giving us bits of ham and tomato.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt