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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Comedian Daniel Tosh even parlayed a desire to gawk at the web’s inept and unaware into a vicious update of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” that aired on Comedy Central for years.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

Visitors strolling Hollywood Boulevard stopped to gawk at the gathering, which blocked two lanes of eastbound traffic in the busy tourist area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

Normally closed to the public, these inspiring gardens have a lot to gawk at.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

She glanced back over her shoulder, and I did the same, trying not to gawk.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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 sweet little shrug that the grown-up, matronly Dakota Johnson gives to Dismukes, as he gawks at her younger self strutting around the stage, makes the entire sketch worthwhile.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 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

Everyone gawks over how beautiful the cake is.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

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

Locals gawked as his agents patrolled the Chicago River in a Border Patrol boat armed with long guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 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

Ella's new roommates gawked at Winnie like she was a fly let into the house, and Ella's cheeks warmed with more embarrassment.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Maybe it’s just disorienting because no one anticipated gawking at his torso inside the historic downtown Los Angeles venue founded by Hollywood legends Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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

Even more peace officers than before were posted to keep the gawking crowds back.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman