gawp

chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gawp And best of luck finding something else to gawp at on one of the Big Four nets. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025 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 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 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
  • Taking refuge in Utah, a world away I’m sitting here, staring at these majestic mountains that in the summer can appear brown, blue, green, gold or gray depending on the time of day or how the sun hits them.
    Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One where the entire community would gather to stare blankly at price tags, sit on bulky massage chairs, and sample glossy pieces of teriyaki chicken in a grand dining hall.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some viewers even took to hate-watching the show, tuning in every week just to gawk at the latest episodes’ cringeworthy moments.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Nunn has a divided audience, as the Baddies show is fueled with drama, with Jerry Springer style fights to keep viewers gawking.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Another photo focused on the sonogram images, while the last shot showed Dawson and Sykes gazing lovingly at one another, while Iris stood next to them in front of the ocean.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Whether gazing from Gellért Hill or haggling for paprika in the Great Market Hall—the city reveals itself in fragments—intimate, contradictory, and impossible to forget.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Gawp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawp. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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