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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

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

The stars were so thick, Percy was tempted to stop and gawk at them.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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 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

The rest of my tour group gawks at me but I focus on Agent Fiona.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

They gawked at the pallets of foie gras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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

She was gawked at every day in school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

I didn’t care to be gawked at, nor did I like being ordered to parade myself around, but what was the point of saying so unless I was going to walk off the job?

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

In recent days, social media has been filled with videos of Europeans gawking at the staples of suburban American life—a two-car garage, a walk-in closet, a second refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

People watching from inside the building could be seen gawking and tapping at the glass, as Honnold moved past the enclosed observation deck on the 89th floor.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 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

The man stood in the middle of the road in decadent Beverly Hills, gawking at one of those only-in-L.A. streetscapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2025

He was gawking at two sea serpents—thirty-foot-long monsters with glowing blue scales and jaws that could have bitten a whale shark in half.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan