rubbernecking

Example Sentences

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“It is pure rubbernecking and I can’t stop,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Like the show it criticizes, it is an exercise in rubbernecking, capitalizing on the contestants’ anguish and suffering instead of offering healthy media analysis in hindsight as medicine.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

Twitter is perpetually a car fire, and its biggest advantage is that humans enjoy rubbernecking.

From Slate • May 7, 2024

She told Vogue she had thought hard about people "rubbernecking" - wanting to look at others' misfortune.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

We’re inching along the corridor, rubbernecking, unwilling to miss a single link.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman