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
• All over town, city leaders and the curious ran out moments after the tornado to assess damage or just gawk.
  — miamiherald, 12 May 2016
• 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

gawk

2 of 2 verb

• There are flashy dunks or goals to gawk at.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• If gawking at celebrities is your thing.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026
• Bystanders gawk and cheer from the sidewalks.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
• Locals complained tourist gawked at them or traipsed through their yards.
  — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
• For more than 80 years, the ranch has been open to passersby who want to gawk.
  — Ha Duong, WSJ, 30 Jan. 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
• My husband gawked when two bright yellow plushy signs arrived in the mail.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• That’s what makes the mandala more than a pretty thing for people to gawk at.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 Apr. 2020
• Some passersby stopped to gawk, but most minded their own business.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Everyone else will have to gawk from a distance.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Michael would take him into the back to gawk at the inventory.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Crowds gathered, not to buy—few could have afforded the fruit or even known how to eat them—but to gawk.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Apr. 2026
• Viewers first tuned in to gawk at the empty streets, and then to watch the crowds slowly return.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
• Trick-or-treaters will gawk at this oh-so-adorable Shih Tzu pumpkin carving.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps it a school field trip to gawk at CNN’s studios.
  — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Delany once brought along a female friend curious to gawk (a reprise of Brown).
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
• Children on the roadsides gawk as six-wheeled military trucks roll by, kicking up clouds of dust.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Those aboard gathered along the railing to gawk at the gruesome diversion.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Viewers’ need to gawk at the performers, rather than embrace them, abated in the last decade.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 June 2020
• While some neighbors walked outside to gawk at the wall of flames, others fled in the other direction.
  — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2022
• 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
• News broadcasts from the fire showed residents gawking at the fire and filming it with their cellphones.
  — Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Stay in your pajamas and gawk at this Texas-Oklahoma stuff from the couch.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 23 July 2021
• Shoppers are gawking at their climbing receipts as food costs continue to climb.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 June 2026
• 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