gawped

• “This, of course, to anyone who has gawped at the pyramids of Giza or wandered slack-jawed around the temple of Karnak, cannot help but feel frustrating.”

  The Guardian: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple

• “So when the young hotel receptionist welcomed us and wished us a “pleasant and memorable stay,” I gawped at every precise word that came out of her beautiful mouth.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallin’ Up

• “When I had jaundice, they all came and gawped at me.”

  The Guardian: Pam Ayres: My family values

• “Lesley didn't bat an eyelid, but I gawped, until a lady asked for money, then I shot off.”

  The Guardian: Family life

• “I also loved the Grewal clan, British Indians from west London, bickering and eating bhajis while we sat at home and gawped.”

  The Guardian: Strictly Kosher: Grace Dent's TV OD

• “The novel ends, seemingly on a high, with Theodora walking out with the emperor Justinian, her new husband, to greet the very crowds who had once cheered and gawped at her floor-shows.”

  The Guardian: Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy

• “The six million who gawped at Mr Griffin on Question Time three months ago were looking at the wrong person.”

  A golden age for fascism

• “The Sunday Herald's Pat Kane said on Newsnight Scotland that the show made him "enraged", and was a prime example of the "editorial class" selecting the juiciest bits of lower working class lives and displaying them to be gawped at.”

  The Guardian: The Scheme is a surprise ratings hit

• “About 20 officers and clusters of tourists gawped at the stragglers in Halloween outfits as they drifted home in daylight.”

  The Guardian: Return of underground rave culture is fuelled by the recession and Facebook

• “Or gawped at arguably the highpoint of the series where Strider carves his way into Mordor, hacks off the head of the Dark Lord, and casts it into the pit of a volcano?”

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