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ogle

[oh-guhl] / ˈoʊ gəl /


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Nearly half a million people were expected to pass through the sprawling Javits Convention Center, from industry bigwigs to families just coming to ogle hundreds of new vehicles on display.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

They regularly ogle the luxury store’s jewel-toned smoothies on social media and wanted a sip of the aspirational lifestyle.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2024

Walking out to The Point, a promontory jutting out into the water, is a worthy endeavor any time of day — and a chance to ogle your favorite million-dollar-view campsite.

From Seattle Times Jul. 1, 2023

Well, at least we can ogle some pics and see how the strange looks of the Pixel 6 will evolve.

From The Verge May 11, 2022

Ralph could only ogle, though, helpless with envy, as Grover balled up his napkin.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

In the 1988 movie “Working Girl,” an assistant secretly stays at her absent boss’ apartment, ogles its opulence alongside her best friend and tries on a dress with a $6,000 price tag.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2025

The Emcee’s funhouse reflection signifies not only how straight culture ogles the novelty of a newly surfaced queer society in Weimar Berlin but also how that queer community ogles at the novelty of itself.

From Salon Oct. 4, 2025

Central to all four stories is food, and the camera lovingly ogles ingredients being chopped, spiced and roasted according to the families’ culinary traditions.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2020

In another short scene, he ogles electric guitars through a shop window.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2019

Prussia, while wooing the czarina, ogles the grand duke, and it is her interest to bring them together.

From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

During a timeout, the fans danced to Bruno Mars, pounded their white noisemakers, ogled a courtside Kim Kardashian and eventually locked arms and swayed to “Don’t Stop Believing.”

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2024

Children ogled an array of desserts, including orange slices and syrupy balls of fried dough.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2023

I ogled the rarities in used bookshops and prowled through hole-in-the wall thrift stores.

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2020

The spectroscopy data—arcane squiggles on line graphs—still have a long way to go before being ogled for any beautiful mysteries revealed.

From Scientific American Dec. 19, 2018

A double-decker bus rumbled by and a group of merry pub-goers ogled them as they passed; Harry and Ron were still wearing dress robes.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

A TV commercial featured two guys in a beat-up muscle car ogling a Ram truck at a stoplight.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

But instead of ogling violence to exploit its evil and nauseate the audience, Lynch calls attention to the systems that propagate it.

From Salon Jan. 25, 2025

She notices that great artworks, when surrounded by throngs of ogling tourists, can emit a sense of being “victimized.”

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2024

The plot hinges on a $300,000 engagement ring that goes missing after it has been passed around the dinner table for ogling.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2023

Coal sat in the front passenger seat, ogling the bright, shiny dials in the car’s dash.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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