gawks
- present tense form of gawk (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The crowd gawks at her — devout eyes wide, lips parted as if witnessing a miracle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Anyone who sits through the end credits of a franchise movie and gawks at screens filled with hundreds of names of special effects and visual effects crew knows most of the is digitally animated.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024
The sweet little shrug that the grown-up, matronly Dakota Johnson gives to Dismukes, as he gawks at her younger self strutting around the stage, makes the entire sketch worthwhile.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
The best ones are also well-constructed and stylishly shot works that simultaneously elicit gawks and delight.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2017
All conversation stops as the entire lunchroom gawks, my face burning into their retinas.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
