gawk

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

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

But whether spectators were there to pay their respects to someone they admired or to gawk at the cortège for another one of Hollywood’s dead blondes is its own question.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

The explosion happens in slow motion, allowing viewers to gawk at all of DeYoung’s shrewdly constructed, cinematic shrapnel.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

But the feature that made us gawk was a town—a real town, the first we had seen in a week—that stood perhaps six or seven miles to the north.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson