Example Sentences

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"I love that you can just walk in and sort of experience it from the street," said Agata Seferynska, a Polish student who came window-shopping with a friend.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

Twitter was a shopping mall to the rest of the internet, but it was a mall known more for window-shopping than for actual purchasing.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2024

“Everybody is kind of in window-shopping behavior right now,” says Bre Clinton, an assistant manager for the Body Shop at Baybrook Mall.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

Most of my window-shopping nowadays is conducted online, where book covers are reduced to flat, rectangular images that are merely elements on a page.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

For half an hour they sat comfortably in their chairs and watched men and women walking, witnessed one dog fight, cruised slowly up and down, looking into windows of homes, window-shopping in the business section.

From Empire by Simak, Clifford D.