- present participle of gawk.
gawking
Example Sentences
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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
"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
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
Then she introduced herself to Abbey, who was gawking at the barbed-wire tattoo on Shelly’s bare arm.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
