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How to use ogle in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb, noun

Ogle means to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. Example: “"Come and see!" and the old creature ogled Carrados with her beady eyes as though the situation constituted an excellent joke between them.”

Examples of ogle by meaning

verbTo stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

  • "Come and see!" and the old creature ogled Carrados with her beady eyes as though the situation constituted an excellent joke between them.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

nounAn eye.

  • Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137

More sentences with ogle

  • Ogles, an entrepreneur, will defeat state House Speaker Beth Harwell and retired Brig.2022 August 4, Rachel Janfaza, “Andy Ogles will win GOP nomination in redrawn Tennessee 5th District, CNN projects”, in CNN. From the entry Kurt
  • A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle.2008, Brian Ashcraft, Jean Snow, Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers. From the entry bullet hell
  • Perched on its top, huddled together, three owlings were ogling them.1985, Romanian Review, volume 39, numbers 6-12, page 22. From the entry owling
  • 'Is that -- she dismantlingly ogled -- what you're after?':and Mrs Thoroughfare 'reimportunes' her friend.1977, Mervyn Horder, Ronald Firbank: memoirs and critiques, page 219. From the entry reimportune
  • She didn't mind; after eight years, she and Harry had long since ceased to ogle each other after bed.2024 September 12, HarryBlank, “Nothing Changes”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024. From the entry inverted
  • I drink more water from my chair under the shade and try not to ogle my future husband's abs.2022, Veliciah, CEO Stepbrother's Surprise Baby, unnumbered page. From the entry horny jail
  • Brother Diego stared doltishly around the hall, ogling the rich trappings, and the monarchs dismissed him as the liripoop he was.2021, James Howell Street, The Velvet Doublet. From the entry liripoop
  • Mount spectacular summits and ogle eyepopping fall foliage.2016, Amy C Balfour, Gregor Clark, Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips, →ISBN. From the entry fall foliage
  • Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach.2007 July 18, “Oregon Coast Travel Tips: Complete Tour of Seaside”, in beachconnection.net. From the entry highborn
  • The coolest of these "empowereds" laugh with the shock jocks ogling the hotties and ragging on the fatties and the prudes.2003, Elle - Issue 220, page 188. From the entry empowered
  • "Just look at them funbags," Balen said, ogling Eirene's breasts.2001, Catherine Spangler, Shamara. From the entry funbag
  • The actors carry off this farce with the usual crude camp, semaphore gestures, shameless hamminess, and heavy ogling.1988 October 21, Lawrence Bommer, “Magnum Farce”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry hamminess
  • Tucked inconspicuously away behind the shoal of darkness that hung in those gloomy corners, the silhouetted enigma was ogling him in halcyon silence.2007, Ramon Elmerito Gatchalian, A Supernatural Threat, page 9. From the entry enigma
  • At that very moment on this recent Friday night, though, it was a roasted branzino with glassy eyes that was ogling her.2007 February 18, Monica Corcoran, “Strike Up the Turntable”, in New York Times. From the entry branzino
  • “But we don’t have anything like this in Indonesia”, he said, overwhelmed as he ogled the huge platter of rice with an array of spicy meats, eggs, potatotes and vegetables.2015 April 20, KF Seetoh, “Makansutra”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2016. From the entry nasi ambeng
  • Watching me ogling the lovely waitresses' movements, this Greek philosopher -- who happened to be my mother's brother—-advised me, “Never dip your pen in the local inkwell while at work.”2014, George M. Goritz, Shakespeare, Wall Street and My Arabian Nights Adventures, →ISBN, pages 101–102. From the entry dip one's pen in someone's inkwell

Meaning of ogle

  1. verb To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
  2. noun An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
  3. noun An eye.

Full definition of ogle

Questions about ogle in a sentence

How do you use ogle in a sentence?
Ogle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “"Come and see!" and the old creature ogled Carrados with her beady eyes as though the situation constituted an excellent joke between them.”
What is a short sentence with ogle?
“Mount spectacular summits and ogle eyepopping fall foliage.”
What does ogle mean?
Ogle means to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ogle (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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