gawk

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Nov. 26, 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

Those tumors would often cause passersby to gawk cruelly, which made Pearson feel an unlikely kinship with the notable figures who stopped by the hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

Biopics should not be a lookalike contest, where audiences gawk at the screen, inspecting the performance with opera binoculars to see just how closely an actor can come to mirroring their real-life subject.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2024

“I’m not some odd commodity that you can gawk at!”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas