as in to stare
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade
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Recent Examples of goggle
Snoop got schooled in the pool, even after breaking down and goggling up.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
30 July 2024
Over and over, we are invited to goggle at such amazingness.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
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Christian Holub,
EW.com,
5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
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Dan Chiasson,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2019
See All Example Sentences for goggle
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
30 July 2024
Over and over, we are invited to goggle at such amazingness.
—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
—
Dan Chiasson,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2019
See All Example Sentences for goggle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goggle
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Only, instead of juicy confessions of a vampire, the footage just shows Lestat staring at him, silent, for half an hour.
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The man came over to me, his face a foot away from mine, and stared into my eyes.
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On several occasions this writer has had the pleasure of gazing at the aforesaid state capitol building at Tallahassee … which looked, at first glance, like a garage only there was a kind of dome on top and garages usually do not have domes.
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The final slide of the carousel, a black-and-white snap, saw Olivera gazing down at Aidan and placing her hand into his isolette.
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Shoppers are gawking at their climbing receipts as food costs continue to climb.
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Still, fans will get a chance to gawk at the arms of José Canseco, who turns 62 nine days before the derby.
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“Goggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goggle. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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