gawk at

gawk at someone or something

to stare at someone or something, obviously and awkwardly. Why are you standing there, gawking at me? The tourists stood at the foot of the mountain and gawked at the top.
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Sandy said there would be a monument put up there, where Moses and Esau had stood, with the date and circumstances, and all about the whole business, and travellers would come for thousands of years and gawk at it, and climb over it, and scribble their names on it.
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Airline passengers bound for the Antarctic Circle couldn't help but gawk at the Aurora Australis, which put on a spectacular show last Friday.
WATCH: Passengers film Southern Lights across Antarctic Circle
It's inconceivable that they would ever capture wild animals and place them in enclosures only to gawk at them, and then let them starve to death during food shortages.
Boo to zoos
In her cage she waits small and barred, carrying torchlight, daring us while we pretend not to gawk at the white-round plate other face.
The Last Hunger Artist
All await with abated breaths for Veena Malik's heartbreak over Sheik Sahib's refusal, while they equally gawk at possible fulfilling of Sheikh Sahib's whim by Prime Minister of allowing Sheikh to administer polio drops down his (PM's) gullet.
Sheikh Rashid rejects Veena Malik's sweet tea party
A tour bus company that offered customers a chance to gawk at ghetto neighborhoods in the South Bronx has stopped the rides after severe backlash from the community.
Ghetto Tours Stopped In The Bronx, 'Real Bronx Tours' Brought Tourists To 'Pick-Pocketing Parks'
We can gawk at a person, a bird or a flowering bush and miss the inherent beauty, but when we change our looking into gazing that beauty comes home to our soul.
In praise of gazing
SUP) is old hat, and there's something fresh to gawk at when you go to the beach: SUP yoga.
Newest water-spots craze
This is so selfish to do this, just so we can gawk at them.
Don't panda to this cruel plan; Yourview
com or skip the catalog and gawk at the tools online.
Grizzly tool catalog
Or do people just fancy a gawk at the lump of wood one or two loopers reckon they can see the mother of Jesus in?
Wood you Adam and Eve all that
Now that I'm home, I want to tell my friends how silly guys look when they gawk at me.
Don't want to boast
When the city promises us a skatepark and provides us with a prefab playground, caged in and on display like an exhibit in a museum for the rest of the town to gawk at, our only defense is to run to the fortress that is Thrasher.
More cash
Is it proper to let tourists gawk at the bodies of great kings and queens?
New life for the long dead: they've long been Egyptology's stepchildren, but mummies are now attracting greater attention
They are treated as a novelty and tourists gawk at them.
Scots bid to aid lost tribes
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