- present participle of gawk.
gawking
Example Sentences
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"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
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
I surely won't answer it in the middle of the street with two women gawking at me.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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