Noun
thought that the linebackers were dumb gawks until he got to know them better Verb
a crowd of gawking tourists
couldn't help gawking at the exotically dressed guests in the hotel lobby
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Noun
The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.—John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020 The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.—Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Verb
Visitors to the hall gawk at the many specimens—a trumpeter swan, eagles, snowy owls—donated by John Edson, the naturalist who collected and mounted the birds around the turn of the 20th century.—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024 Mitty and Bethel watched the dollhouse materialize from the front seat of their living room, cursing each new wall of glass delivered to the worksite, gawking in horror as the cement truck filled the walkway with gray batter.—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for gawk
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