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ogle

[oh-guhl] / ˈoʊ gəl /


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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

It provides a place to rest, admire a perplexing painting, ogle the crowd or check DMs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

Before the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of visitors traveled to Hokkaido from the rest of Asia, Europe and the United States to ogle and photograph the birds.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 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

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

"How that Spanish crocodile ogles the Rose!" whispered he to young St. Leger.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

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

Robin Leach, a British-born TV personality and unapologetic practitioner of “Jacuzzi journalism” whose long-running show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” ogled the world’s most conspicuous consumers consuming conspicuously, died Aug. 23 in Las Vegas.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2018

Down under the waters of the Long Island Sound she was taken in a glass-walled subsea vessel, where in a green and wavering world, quaint and curious sea-things ogled her and wiggled suddenly away.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The ogling over Maserati-priced tickets was obnoxious and the celebrity fuss was way too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

So having a competition solely dedicated to him, in which thousands of ogling fans and hopeful look-alikes traveled both near and far to attend, is incredibly Gen-Z coded.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 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

His face obscured and his blank white uniform disclosing neither team nor number, he is resolutely anonymous — as anonymous as the throng ogling in the stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

“You’re so lucky, Virginia!” they say when they visit me at the hotel, ogling the indoor garden and skylight and elegant furniture.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau


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