gawk
verb (used without object)
to stare stupidly; gape.
was gawking
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past progressiveof gawk.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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While everyone else was gawking at kangaroos and koalas, I was staring at a caged bird, an emu.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2020
I’d like to say Hi and be part of that lovely world for a minute except that a crewcut boy might think I was gawking at his girl and report me to the maître d’.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
Weeks later Singh was gawking out of an airplane window at towering skyscrapers that stretched for miles into the desert.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everyone else was gawking at the MIL-12 as it was towed gently into position next to the droop-nosed Russian SST.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was gawking at two sea serpents—thirty-foot-long monsters with glowing blue scales and jaws that could have bitten a whale shark in half.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
