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Recent Examples of gawk
Noun
With its cool look and flashy two-tone color schemes, folks will take gawk at the RAV4 Prime at the stoplight. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021 People take deep breaths to inhale fresh air, gawk at the wildlife and rock climb. NBC News, 24 Mar. 2021
Verb
All over town, city leaders and the curious ran out moments after the tornado to assess damage or just gawk. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025 My wife, however, suggests gawking is a more apt description. Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gawk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gawk
Noun
  • Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.
    David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The first night, the characters are menaced by a bald hulk in overalls, wearing a clown mask with the mouth area (including his teeth) smashed in.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In the fifth inning, the Royals were staring at another blowout loss.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2025
  • Screenshots from a June 10 TikTok video of a black Lab puppy staring at his owner while at the store.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Coastal friends, start with fresh jumbo lump crabmeat.
    Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
  • Key Takeaways Warts form a hard lump, while skin tags are soft and often on a stalk.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • Participants, now paired up, gripped hands with their partners, fingers interlaced, gazing into one another’s eyes.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • Artists who are also mothers have sometimes found inspiration in their children: Berthe Morisot, the Impressionist, made many tender paintings and drawings of her daughter, Julie, reading or sewing or gazing out a window; Sally Mann took photographs of her children for a decade.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That creep who runs North Korea said his father shot 18 in a round of golf.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 17 May 2025
  • Another unexpected force accelerating RTO creep is government influence.
    Jason Wingard, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The toilet does the heavy work automatically with an electromechanical system, so all the owner of said waste has to do is grab the sealed, odorless bag and drop it in the garbage, much like a mutt mitt.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 May 2025
  • Remember when this series started, the Nuggets were heavy underdogs, viewed as mutts.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • All matches were best-of-two, and each player started with five minutes on the clock in the winners’ bracket, three minutes in the losers’ bracket, and both had one-second increments with each move (considered time to move the piece).
    Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • While a loss won't eliminate either team, the winner will advance directly to the semifinals, while the loser will have to play an elimination game against the winner of Murray State vs. Arkansas.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025

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“Gawk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawk. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.

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