I love that word gawp, not one is usage over here. From Wordnik.com. [Picture This-September-Portraits Of Muhly « Fairegarden] Reference
While another Mumsnet user dropped by with a cake, to "gawp" at their celebrity visitor, the couple's teenage children were less impressed. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And I, most likely, gawp like a tourist the whole way there. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: Meanwhile, Back In America] Reference
Tired as I was, I was impatient to see New York, walk and gawp. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
Crowds gathered to gawp at the monster thrown up from the abyss. From Wordnik.com. [Pollinated Here & There] Reference
The others gathered round to gawp at it it was a fearsome looking brute. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
I'd allow you to gaze and gawp into my mouth to see why, but you're not here. From Wordnik.com. [Brace yourself.] Reference
It is doubtless more fun to gawp at the militants of the so-called New Right. From Wordnik.com. [When the Tea Party Began] Reference
All life was there and to us country dwellers it's always fascinating to gawp. From Wordnik.com. [50 entries from June 2007] Reference
The firemen and Shapiro were not the only ones with more to do there than gawp. From Wordnik.com. [A Taste for Burning]
They gawp at one-day old antelopes which would be better left to their mothers. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling smug at the zoo] Reference
The whole defies the audience to do more than gawp at the unlovely passing parade. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
I put his food down and he does his wide-mouthed grin at me, part-smile part-gawp. From Wordnik.com. [Superfoods] Reference
People will gawp amazed at how lifelike she Hillary looks compared to a genuine 'droid. From Wordnik.com. ["God bless."] Reference
Those poor Gosselin children have had their personalities cemented for millions to gawp at. From Wordnik.com. [All The Blogs A Stage | Her Bad Mother] Reference
So if you want to be amazed at a Debi in a pub on a Friday night, you can come and gawp at me. From Wordnik.com. [CFB] Reference
She was frightened, frightened of these strange children being brought to gawp and stare at her. From Wordnik.com. [Raw « Write Anything] Reference
Bari, smiling at such a prime example of Las Vegas kitsch, tugged at Rossi who had stopped to gawp. From Wordnik.com. [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference
He'll be going home after the SRBs are fished out of the ocean and sent back for refurbishment.:: gawp. From Wordnik.com. [Nebula Weekend, days 2-3] Reference
In such a light, the photographs in the gawp-at-genius bagatelle of a book Freud at Work have their uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Way to All Flesh] Reference
A group of men civilians had come to gawp at the scene and Shirley nudged her and whispered, "The Balvaks.". From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
The growth of celebrity culture encouraged us to gawp at their excesses and mimic their appearance and habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Luxury] Reference
They were there to gawp at twisted wreckage – the evidence of the latest disaster to hit the troubled event. From Wordnik.com. [Does this look ready to you? Chaos in run-up to Commonwealth Games] Reference
(There was a hand-written sign saying “Car Expo”, so I guess later on people were to come and gawp at them.). From Wordnik.com. [Trapped on Sofa] Reference
Her slump had stretched the boat neck of the dress into a lopsided gawp that revealed an ivory-colored slip-strap. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
If there were more parents looking over them the weirdos wouldn't stand a chance, however many kids there were around to gawp at. From Wordnik.com. [Teenage Computer Addict Commits Suicide] Reference
The stableboy turned to face Sharina, then lurched back with a gawp of fear when he saw the dagger she brought out from beneath her cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Head to Muscle Beach for a gawp at these specimens. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"Eh?" says I, doin 'the gawp act sudden on my own account. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe on the Job] Reference
All I'm sure of is that we both sort of slowed up and did the gawp act. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy and Vee] Reference
Maybe they'd heard about Naomi's infamous temper and were too scared to gawp. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Concerned mission planners built gawp time into the minute-by-minute schedules. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
I gawp at the Sistine Chapel and breathlessly climb the 320 steps to the summit of St Peter's. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I can only mutter something about feeling fine, gawp and wonder "Where on earth did you come from?". From Wordnik.com. [icCheshireOnline] Reference
This is so that the visitors can gawp at the inmates, and they treat it as a form of entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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