gawk
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Yet the lizard brain making you gawk is shrieking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
Nearly 100 reporters still showed up to gawk at their greatness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
Thousands of people showed up to the Washington Square Park archway to gawk at the numerous dark-haired, square-jawed lookalikes.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
It must’ve been awful to have people gawk at you and demand you entertain them how they see fit.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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
Awaiting glitterati arrivals for a red-carpet event down the block, the crowd gawks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
Everyone gawks over how beautiful the cake is.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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
We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
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
Some kind of hunchback with three eyes and a long tongue gawked from a banner stretched over the street.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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
She caught me gawking at the bag of bottles.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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