How to Use gawk in a Sentence

gawk

1 of 2 noun

• But almost everyone can walk — and gawk — at the homes along its shores.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2017
• Every time Mr. DiMola opens his garage doors, passers-by gawk at the explosion of artifacts in his shop.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
• All over town, city leaders and the curious ran out moments after the tornado to assess damage or just gawk.
  — miamiherald, 12 May 2016
• The park offers few amenities: no restaurants, no shade and nothing much to do except gawk at deserted arenas.
  — Renata Brito, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• Auto tourists could temporarily stop, gawk and shop at a towering dinosaur, giant sombrero or the world’s largest cheese wheel.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• His popular podcast pries the most awkward, high-stakes stories from guests in an attempt to entertain and (let’s be honest) gawk at the glorious trainwrecks.
  — The Know Staff, The Know, 19 May 2017
• Gawk at 30 million dollars up close, redesign the nation’s currency, check out historical currency and more.
  — The Know Staff, The Know, 1 June 2017
• By Saturday afternoon, reporters and photographers loitered outside the restaurant, as did people who had wandered over to gawk.
  — Sarah Murray, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
• But almost everyone can walk — and gawk — at the homes along its shores.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2017
• Every time Mr. DiMola opens his garage doors, passers-by gawk at the explosion of artifacts in his shop.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
• All over town, city leaders and the curious ran out moments after the tornado to assess damage or just gawk.
  — miamiherald, 12 May 2016
• The park offers few amenities: no restaurants, no shade and nothing much to do except gawk at deserted arenas.
  — Renata Brito, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• Auto tourists could temporarily stop, gawk and shop at a towering dinosaur, giant sombrero or the world’s largest cheese wheel.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• His popular podcast pries the most awkward, high-stakes stories from guests in an attempt to entertain and (let’s be honest) gawk at the glorious trainwrecks.
  — The Know Staff, The Know, 19 May 2017
• Gawk at 30 million dollars up close, redesign the nation’s currency, check out historical currency and more.
  — The Know Staff, The Know, 1 June 2017
• By Saturday afternoon, reporters and photographers loitered outside the restaurant, as did people who had wandered over to gawk.
  — Sarah Murray, latimes.com, 24 June 2018

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gawk

2 of 2 verb

• Case in point: these 31 pecan recipes to cook and bake and gawk over.
  — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 18 Oct. 2023
• For more than 80 years, the ranch has been open to passersby who want to gawk.
  — Ha Duong, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Mary has Chrishell, Heather, and her over to gawk at Romaine and dream about him in a pair of very tight briefs.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• No wiping the smiles from the faces of those who came to gawk at the dead Black man killed by white vigilantes.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Feb. 2022
• That’s what makes the mandala more than a pretty thing for people to gawk at.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 Apr. 2020
• But the second oldest of his four sons has rarely tried one on or gawked at that war chest.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The All-Star Game is mostly a chance to celebrate the sport and gawk at the feats of the majors’ best showmen.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Viewers first tuned in to gawk at the empty streets, and then to watch the crowds slowly return.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
• Children gawk, women scream, and men reach for their guns.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• Or, Don’t beat her like that, don’t gawk, put that somewhere else, sit and listen awhile.
  — Drea Brown Zócalo Public Square, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
• But for thrill-seekers who want to do more than stand and gawk, there’s something new on the horizon.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
• Michael would take him into the back to gawk at the inventory.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• My husband gawked when two bright yellow plushy signs arrived in the mail.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• Trick-or-treaters will gawk at this oh-so-adorable Shih Tzu pumpkin carving.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022
• As a result, people didn’t know what to do with Truth or Dare other than gawk — and boy did they.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 May 2021
• Down at that end, there’s no press, no gawking fans or paparazzi, no hubbub to speak of.
  — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
• The long, rectangular lounge is one long bar on the right, dance floor on the left, and some chairs and tables for those who want to sit and gawk.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Stay in your pajamas and gawk at this Texas-Oklahoma stuff from the couch.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 23 July 2021
• Red carpet followers didn’t have much to gawk at in 2020.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
• Viewers’ need to gawk at the performers, rather than embrace them, abated in the last decade.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 June 2020
• Delany once brought along a female friend curious to gawk (a reprise of Brown).
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
• Some passersby stopped to gawk, but most minded their own business.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• No one wants to end up with a drink that tastes like exhaust from the tour buses dropping people off to gawk at the cherry trees.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
• Those aboard gathered along the railing to gawk at the gruesome diversion.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Other activists splashed with red dye staged a ‘‘die-in’’ in front of the New York Stock Exchange — lying down as if dead while tourists gawked.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• While some neighbors walked outside to gawk at the wall of flames, others fled in the other direction.
  — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2022
• La Jolla has become a popular landing place for pinnipeds to haul out of the ocean and rest — and for tourists to gawk at them.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• The hanging tree where a lynch mob gathered to gawk at the bullet-riddled body of Rubin Stacy is long gone.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 15 June 2021
• We are sent to Namibia (where Pepe’s parents hailed from) in the 1970s with a busload of gawking German tourists on a safari tour.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
• The not-famous attendees walk a far less noticeable carpet path and are urged (often) to move into the theater and stop gawking.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024