Thesaurus results for OGLED

ogled

verb

past tense of ogle

as in stared

to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way I do wish you two would stop ogling each other during class

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Recent Examples of ogled Because every bottle of whiskey available at Jack Rose can be ordered, and is priced to be sampled, rather than ogled, the whiskey list at Jack Rose is ever changing. — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Travellers flying in or out of the hub ogled the spectacle, a display of sudden corporate collapse. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 9 May 2026 Dixie asks Buck, having previously ogled the shirtless firefighter during the Firefighter Games. — Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Mar. 2026 Princess Diana, Oprah, and Gwyneth Paltrow have all ogled the traditional Indian craftsmanship blended with contemporary design. — Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025

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As prosecutors played audio of Davis explaining the moment Shakur was shot, members of Shakur's family, including his stepbrother Maurice Shakur, stared ahead and listened intently from the audience.

— CBS News, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Near the intersection of 11th Street and Washington Avenue, Hoffmann stopped and stared at the illuminated building across the street — the Miami Beach Police Department.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of stared

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With Amazon proposing a massive fulfillment center, the Hopkins-Allen mill eyed for a 172-unit apartment conversion and several other potential developments in the pipeline, Norwich Mayor Swarnjit Singh is pressing for more.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Kushner, of permanent-capital holding company Thrive Eternal and younger brother of Jared Kushner, and Iger, Disney’s former chief executive, were recently looking into an expansion franchise as the NBA eyed new teams in Seattle and Las Vegas.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of eyed

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People in surrounding cars gawked, waved and, in one instance, rolled down their windows to shout something that went unheard, as Bonelli explained that the van had internal cameras that were always on but not always being watched.

— Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026
On Thursday, the nuisance from the wings was the one being gawked at by a cast young enough to be his kids — a detail Wilson clocked from backstage.

— Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of gawked

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On Air Force One, somewhere above Alaska, White House communications director Steven Cheung gazed out at the Northern Lights.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 20 Aug. 2026
Kikuko rolled over on her side and gazed up at the sky, which had suddenly become blanketed in thunder clouds.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of gazed

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Oswalt peered down the pitcher’s mound and aimed a first-pitch fastball high and inside.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Dern's 7-year-old daughter peered her head over the barricade from her front row seat and shouted encouragement each time mom got close to her side of the cage.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026

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