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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
Swarms of bird fanciers have been flocking to a west Orange County neighborhood to ogle a snowy owl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
“I’m wearing big Thom Browne sunglasses so I can ogle people without them knowing I’m looking at them,” the actress said, laughing.
From New York Times ● May 2, 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
Central to all four stories is food, and the camera lovingly ogles ingredients being chopped, spiced and roasted according to the families’ culinary traditions.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020
In another short scene, he ogles electric guitars through a shop window.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2019
I have put him into a glass case with some stuffed birds, at which he ogles, with his great eyes, in a manner not altogether divine.
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
As a young investment banker new to the city, I ogled it in the windows of the home shop D.F.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
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
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
In return there was a fantastic, visceral payoff—a single season of his life in which he became a prince, ogled at, treasured, bathed in the unimaginable glory of Friday night.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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The ogling over Maserati-priced tickets was obnoxious and the celebrity fuss was way too much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Food journalists and major publications aren’t supporting specific Filipino chefs, their cookbooks or their upcoming projects — they’re solely ogling at the cuisine.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2024
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
Now state lawmakers must remain true to the law and refrain from ogling the hundreds of millions of unexpected dollars with designs on using it elsewhere.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
This thing made me anxious enough without having all of after-school ogling over my shoulders.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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