How do you use Gawker in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like spectator or witness, plus the exact meaning.
Gawker meaning
Someone who gawks; someone who stares stupidly.
Using Gawker
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who gawks; someone who stares stupidly.
- Useful related words include: spectator, witness, viewer, watcher.
- In the example corpus, gawker often appears in combinations such as: gawker media, of gawker, gawker is.
Context around Gawker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gawker
- In this selection, "gawker" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, new, previous, media, once and alum stand out and add context to how "gawker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a previous gawker story exposing and belief at gawker media was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gawker" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gawker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Old Gawker is gone and is New Gawker. (8 words)
It’s now two years after Gawker.com went dark. (10 words)
On Thursday, July 12, a locker containing the bones of Gawker. (11 words)
If I may review: Starting in 2011, Thiel began researching and covertly funding litigation aimed at the “destruction” of Gawker, in retaliation for outing him as gay and for what he believed was the generally cruel and bullying coverage of the site. (42 words)
The only idealistic belief at Gawker Media was that a journalistic enterprise could make money without scamming people; the guiding principle at Forbes and sites of its ilk was that scams are good as long as they make money. (39 words)
Journalists and readers have feared that gems like these could disappear from the internet if wealthy owners of Gawker and L.A. Weekly wanted to eliminate what they deem to be unfavorable coverage elsewhere on the sites. (37 words)
There’s no Gawker right now, though, so who is keeping the blog alive? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Old Gawker is gone and is New Gawker.
Tarantino eventually filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker, and stated in the lawsuit that "Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people's rights to make a buck" (quote from The Hollywood Reporter ).
Gawker is a cautionary tale — a beloved outlet whose initial closure came on the heels of an expensive lawsuit funded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
Gawker once published an article that offended me, so it's totally ok that one of the Owner Class bankrolled their destruction.
In 2016, Toufanian hired a lawyer to send a letter to Gawker Media demanding that it take down two negative articles about him, calling them libelous.
Business Insider editor and Gawker alum made the remark while commenting on CNN host guest drawing in the September 23 edition of Dilbert.
G/O Media, formed by Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill Partners, purchased Deadspin along with properties that formerly came under the Gawker media umbrella in April 2019.
Newsweek reported on a previous Gawker story exposing flight logs showing numerous private airplane trips that Clinton allegedly took with Epstein.
Or, there’s current-day, more leathery Hogan, who became embroiled in a sex tape and racial slur scandal that, through a much-covered lawsuit, brought an end to the website Gawker.
The only idealistic belief at Gawker Media was that a journalistic enterprise could make money without scamming people; the guiding principle at Forbes and sites of its ilk was that scams are good as long as they make money.
Don't worry, other Gawker assets, like Deadspin and Jezebel, were already sold to Univision Holdings Inc. back in 2016.
He and many others may think of Gawker as a gossipy tabloid, but in the crazy times we’re living in, its willingness to speak truth to power is dearly missed.
Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is pictured in court on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, during his trial against Gawker Media, in St Petersburg, Florida.
If I may review: Starting in 2011, Thiel began researching and covertly funding litigation aimed at the “destruction” of Gawker, in retaliation for outing him as gay and for what he believed was the generally cruel and bullying coverage of the site.
It’s now two years after Gawker.com went dark.
Journalists and readers have feared that gems like these could disappear from the internet if wealthy owners of Gawker and L.A. Weekly wanted to eliminate what they deem to be unfavorable coverage elsewhere on the sites.
Kelly and I have worked closely together since the last days of Gawker.
Meaning, if Gawker were to be destroyed legally, it would be impossible for another site with a similar ethos to take its place.
On Thursday, July 12, a locker containing the bones of Gawker.
There’s no Gawker right now, though, so who is keeping the blog alive?
Common combinations with gawker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gawker media 5×
- of gawker 5×
- gawker is 2×
- against gawker 2×
- gawker and 2×