window-shop
verb (used without object)
to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
window-shopping
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present participleof window-shop.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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a word derived from
window-shop.
window-shopverb (used without object)to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
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
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 most difficult reservation on Worth Avenue, the town’s luxe window-shopping strip, is Le Bilboquet, an outpost of the Upper East Side French-inspired bistro, which opened in Palm Beach in 2021.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
It was in Chicago that I found "window-shopping" at its most enterprising.
From Roving East and Roving West by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
