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So-called rogues galleries allowed the public to gawk at images.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

To them, he is something to gawk at while patting themselves on the back for “accepting” him.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

Unfortunately, the same draws that make it a walkable gawk for touristas of every stripe makes it a frustrating exercise in perambulation for locals — kind of like New York’s Times Square with balmier weather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024

Some Christians—old and new—with whom we once shared the town gawk at us.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

The best ones are also well-constructed and stylishly shot works that simultaneously elicit gawks and delight.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2017

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

Another gawked in horror as a squealing toddler tore through the store while their mom examined the chocolate moon rocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

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

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

Monro came from a family dynasty of so-called “mad doctors” who used barbaric methods to treat mentally ill patients, and was even known to charge curiosity-seekers admission to Bethlem, where they gawked at the patients.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2023

As we went along, passersby stopped and gawked at us in silence.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Shooting in New York is a very interesting experience because you have all these outliers just watching and gawking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

"It's actually like looking at a digital image of your new dinosaur and gawking over it in the tent in the middle of the Sahara."

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

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

Hundreds of Negro soldiers and sailors, gawking and young like me, passed by.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey