How to Use agog in a Sentence
agog
adjective- The town is agog over the plan.
- The news has chemists agog.
- Her supporters were agog at the idea.
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And then there are items that leave restaurant staffers agog.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
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Today, no one walks into their dentist's office and looks agog at the X-ray machine.
—Ophir Tanz, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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My teenage self would have been agog — whole seasons on tap was surely witchcraft only Willow could pull off.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 27 Oct. 2022
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The Chinese internet has been agog with updates and discussion about the missing leopards.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 10 May 2021
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But this isn't the first time royals watchers were agog at the uncanny resemblance between Harry and Philip.
—Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
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Does the American public, war-weary and agog over celebrities and fluff, even care about suffering in the Middle East?
—Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 27 Jan. 2018
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Now that Gucci is between creative captains once again, the audience will be similarly agog to discover the author of its next chapter.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
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Its reappearance a couple of weeks ago was so unexpected that the fountain pen community, which makes up a small but passionate corner of the office supplies market, was agog.
—Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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Chances are the national events of recent weeks have left you somewhere on the spectrum from despairing to agog to pleased as punch, and at the very least weary of all that the past year’s political campaigning has drummed up and drawn out.
—Cara Buckley, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2016
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The resulting video captures his shock — his eyes widen and his hands grasp his chest, agog — and later ended up on the OnlyFans model’s Instagram account.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 19 May 2024
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King Charles is known for his decades-long routine of healthy eating and plenty of exercise, but UK media is agog with the monarch making a major change in his 76th year.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024
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And the findings emerge when many Latter-day Saints and church observers are already agog at other recently reported multibillion-dollar figures associated with the faith’s wealth.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
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Local Dunkin’ customers — in between kvetching about some recent and unwelcome changes to the DD Rewards program — were agog at the offerings in the photo, few of which are available to customers here.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
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