Example Sentences
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Years seemed to pass as everyone in the hushed area gawped at the scoreboard.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2022
Around her, a group of relatively unknown actors – Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox – gawped.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2019
We pulled in amid a cloud of brown dust to the state fishing access site just below the dam and gawped at the wind-shimmered cottonwood leaves, the river’s leisurely drift and the dry, harsh hills.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2015
The epigrammatic and empathetic Mrs. Kendal, who knows from striking poses and being gawped at, is a scene-stealing showboat.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2014
I gawped at him, thinking, Tell my parents?
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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