On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Gawking. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Gawking meaning
present participle and gerund of gawk
Using Gawking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of gawk
- In the example corpus, gawking often appears in combinations such as: gawking at.
Context around Gawking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gawking
- In this selection, "gawking" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, childhood, stand, men, goes and response stand out and add context to how "gawking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include crash style gawking response and distant art gawking. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gawking" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gawking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The rich-people gawking goes both ways, though. (8 words)
The long, quirky history of Americans gawking at people doing things. (11 words)
She wastes time gawking at other people’s extravagant lives on social media. (13 words)
For some punters this event was about gawking at two-foot long hot dogs and potentially seeing a handful of home runs, though noises around London Stadium suggested a decent number of the 55,565 in attendance were genuinely invested in the sport. (43 words)
Her father owned a drapery shop in her village on the west coast of Ireland, which meant she spent a lot of her childhood 'gawking at everybody's houses' while helping her father install curtains and blinds. (37 words)
In a room packed with gawking men, all intoxicated by the public degradation of this sumptuous fallen socialite, Dickey fumbled, contradicted herself, and became confused during Campbell’s brutal cross-examination. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
For some punters this event was about gawking at two-foot long hot dogs and potentially seeing a handful of home runs, though noises around London Stadium suggested a decent number of the 55,565 in attendance were genuinely invested in the sport.
In a room packed with gawking men, all intoxicated by the public degradation of this sumptuous fallen socialite, Dickey fumbled, contradicted herself, and became confused during Campbell’s brutal cross-examination.
The rich-people gawking goes both ways, though.
Her father owned a drapery shop in her village on the west coast of Ireland, which meant she spent a lot of her childhood 'gawking at everybody's houses' while helping her father install curtains and blinds.
How Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Scotty aren’t also vacuumed into the cosmic maw as they stand gawking out of the huge hole remains a mystery.
The long, quirky history of Americans gawking at people doing things.
Roq la Rue, Ghost Gallery, FoodArt Collection, Museum of Museums and other venues will tonight for a spot of socially-distant art gawking.
Neighbors gawking at my brimming bowls as they walked by cheerfully called me the Strawberry Queen.
She wastes time gawking at other people’s extravagant lives on social media.
The idea is to generate a sort of "car crash" style gawking response.
This may only be a mid-model refresh for the G90, but it’s the sort of refresh that left LA teens pointing and gawking.
It is out there, with athletes baring sinews and muscles and vulnerabilities and triumphs in front of gawking audiences.
Common combinations with gawking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gawking at 4×