goggleinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Using the eyes
accommodate
accommodation
all eyes are on someone/somethingidiom
astigmatic
beholder
cast
chart
corner
discern
fix
glare
have a butcher'sidiom
penetrating
re-see
re-sight
rest on someone/something
resurvey
rubbernecking
sighting
tab
Examples of gawping
gawping
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These are people just discovering the nature of the entrapment of their world on film, and often their fascinated,
gawping astonishment is all too evident.
We have hungry,
gawping audiences who will spend not hours but weeks of their lives watching the products of the film industry.
From the
Hansard archive
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Sometimes they also show the people brought in to help move the wreckage or
gawping onlookers.
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Wikipedia
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The family is left
gawping as the planes disappears over the horizon.
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