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Nearly half a million people were expected to pass through the sprawling Javits Convention Center, from industry bigwigs to families just coming to ogle hundreds of new vehicles on display.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
They regularly ogle the luxury store’s jewel-toned smoothies on social media and wanted a sip of the aspirational lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
All my pet infatuations — visual art, trash culture, ephemera, kitsch, history — were there to ogle, well lit and attractively photographed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
It’s not just a money spectacle and something to ogle, though it is definitely that.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
Ralph could only ogle, though, helpless with envy, as Grover balled up his napkin.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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In the 1988 movie “Working Girl,” an assistant secretly stays at her absent boss’ apartment, ogles its opulence alongside her best friend and tries on a dress with a $6,000 price tag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
The Emcee’s funhouse reflection signifies not only how straight culture ogles the novelty of a newly surfaced queer society in Weimar Berlin but also how that queer community ogles at the novelty of itself.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
In another short scene, he ogles electric guitars through a shop window.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2019
The attention to detail in these scenes provides a feast for geeks of all kinds, as the camera lovingly ogles microphones, amplifiers and consoles that were state of the art in the mid-1960s.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
Still, he has no patience with the foppery whose whole existence advertises fine clothes, patronizes taverns, saunters along fashionable promenades, and ogles opera-dancers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
Grandpa wrote a 300-dollar check for a 1940 Studebaker Commander, the sweetest ride my father had ever ogled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
If delivery drivers were once lightly teased or frequently ogled, now they are simply dehumanized, plugged into machine-run networks and expected to move product with robotic efficiency.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
The spectroscopy data—arcane squiggles on line graphs—still have a long way to go before being ogled for any beautiful mysteries revealed.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2018
She was ogled and examined as if she were a rogue zebra when really she was simply a thoroughbred — Spelman College, Yale Law School — who’d broken away from the pack.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2018
Dimple ogled the drawing, the rich detail of the boys brocade kurta and pants, the intricate metal work on the gada.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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After ogling old cars, lean into nostalgia in the Meadow Gold District, dotted with retro shops and “muffler men,” giant fiberglass statues of a lumberjack, a cowboy and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
But instead of ogling violence to exploit its evil and nauseate the audience, Lynch calls attention to the systems that propagate it.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
She notices that great artworks, when surrounded by throngs of ogling tourists, can emit a sense of being “victimized.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
The plot hinges on a $300,000 engagement ring that goes missing after it has been passed around the dinner table for ogling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
I feel Olly’s eyes on me when he thinks I’m not noticing, but we are a mutual admiration society—I’m secretly ogling him, too.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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