window-shopping
- present participle of window-shop.
- a word derived from window-shop.
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
The three of them moved down sidewalks like window-shopping loiterers looking into every mom and pop store along the way.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
