rubber-necking

Example Sentences

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Erskine, also 31, deadpans while joining in on the rubber-necking.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2019

“MSNBC’s ratings may go up because of the rubber-necking factor to see how he does and because of the residual loyalty he has from his remaining fans.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2015

What with rubber-necking at the big city, it was some after ten o'clock before we got back to the Chapter House and rode up to her apartment.

From The Right Time by Berryman, John

I'd never have spotted him, if I hadn't been rubber-necking at the crowd, sort of counting scalps.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

At "afternoon quarters"—1:30—a drill, new to us, was taught; called by the officers "physical drill," and by the men "rubber-necking."

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell