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

But does a film like “Another Simple Favor” need the peak of its action to be the best part when so many zany, outrageous things have left us gawking and in awe?

From Salon • May 3, 2025

She caught me gawking at the bag of bottles.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely