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How to use gawk in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Gawk means a cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird. Example: “Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.”

Examples of gawk by meaning

nounA cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.

  • Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.1910, John Bunyan Robinson, Bird Or Feather Convention ..., page 11
  • A neighbour rescued the gawk from the market crate and the two birds as cocks competed in a local show.1923, The New Reliable Poultry Journal, page 640

More sentences with gawk

  • The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.2008 November 18, Derrik J. Lang, “Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles”, in USA Today. From the entry fanpire
  • Whole families stood gawking at the massive statue, countdowning the five remaining minutes to the big one.2003, Edward Stone Cohen, Firewater, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry countdown
  • Some streetgoers gawked as if watching an impromptu street play while others grabbed the hands of children and hustled away.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 24, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 131. From the entry streetgoer
  • The One Stop clerk, a college student named Abel Langtry, gawked at the car chase as it hurricaned past in the rain.2019, David J. Schow, The Kill Riff. From the entry hurricane
  • She wasn't aware that she was gawking with her mouth open until the bridgekeeper extended a hand, palm up, and waited in silence.2014, Alisha Nurse, The Return of the Key. From the entry bridgekeeper
  • The porter must have seen me gawking, for he said pleasantly, "This is the atrium, the room Lady Julia uses for entertainment.2013, Joan Wolf, Daughter of Jerusalem, Brentwood, T.N.: Worthy Publishing, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry peristylum
  • Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.2003, Bric Blastard Had It All, page 36. From the entry gallivant
  • He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in.2001, Doug McGuinn, The Apple Indians, page 39. From the entry in the raw
  • Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain’s upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times. From the entry shawled

Meaning of gawk

  1. noun A cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.
  2. noun A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
  3. verb To stare or gape stupidly.

Full definition of gawk

Questions about gawk in a sentence

How do you use gawk in a sentence?
Gawk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.”
What is a short sentence with gawk?
“The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.”
What does gawk mean?
Gawk means a cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gawk (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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