gawp

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gawp Through the Looking Glass The optimal viewing angle for gawping at your spatial creations runs over a 58-degree viewing cone. New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024 For others, gawping at the sheer volume and opulence of Ertegun’s stuff is its own illicit thrill, like rifling through the bedroom drawers of a hostess at a dinner party. The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024 But earlier iterations of the fashion show were often peppered with inappropriate jokes at the models’ expense, with its in-studio audience being largely made up of gawping men. Tara John, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024 And best of luck finding something else to gawp at on one of the Big Four nets. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025 For others, gawping at the sheer volume and opulence of Ertegun’s stuff is its own illicit thrill, like rifling through the bedroom drawers of a hostess at a dinner party. The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024 Early in the game, you’re given the ability to slow down time, a power-up that doesn’t just lead to inventive platforming across rapidly moving razor-sharp knives but the opportunity to gawp further at the spectacle. Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024 But earlier iterations of the fashion show were often peppered with inappropriate jokes at the models’ expense, with its in-studio audience being largely made up of gawping men. Tara John, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024 As the men gawp on lustily and take locks of hair as a souvenir, a tear falls from Teixeira’s defiant mask. Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gawp
Verb
  • Things began to get chippy in the bottom half of the fifth after OSU’s Trent Caraway stared Sloan down after drawing a two-out walk.
    Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, Cauley was staring at a long road to recovery.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
Verb
  • Earhart gawked at markets where soft-shelled-turtle eggs were sold alongside string beans.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • Two men sitting in a silver GMC pickup truck who were watching the disposal drove over to the gawking residents.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • Kulture even holds her little one in her arms, while Cardi gazes at her two girls.
    Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 30 May 2025
  • But colleges and schools, too, are gazing in the mirror: What’s the point—the medium, more precisely—of education nowadays amidst tech upheaval?
    Michael Serazio, Time, 28 May 2025

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“Gawp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawp. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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