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Usage examples of gawker.

They dodged behind the procession and ducked around gawkers, keeping the last wagon, flanked by two mounted guards, in sight.

He carried her through the growing number of stunned gawkers, and headed to the purple house, where the door stood wide-open.

The gawkers had grown predictably bored once the patrol cars left, and the neighbors had retreated back behind their fences where his own car would not be noticed.

Village management had insisted gawkers and hawkers be kept at a respectable distance, to preserve the privacy of the simply retired as well as that of the suddenly acclaimed.

One of the gawkers started to call out to her, then shrunk back at the look on her face.

Gawkers formed an impenetrable barrier around the edges of the departures lounge, so thick, security had formed cordons to permit ticketed tourists, uniformed Time Tours employees, freelance guides, baggage handlers, and supply couriers to reach the roped-off lounge.

As I stood there, more gawkers arrived, forked over the admission fee, and took off down what was now a visible path through the overgrown yard.

The television people, with all their gaffers and go-fers and groupies and cameramen and couriers and technicians and electricians, were blazing with 200-watt eyeballs and ricocheting off each other and the assembled rabble of reporters, radio stringers, tourists, lollygaggers, policemen, and freelance gawkers.

Everywhere for blocks around, there were peddlers peddling, posers posing, gawkers gawking, drunks drinking, bums bumming, and hustlers hustling.

The latter was tickled pink to find out how to make big bucks by stomping down a few cornstalks and standing aside to watch the gawkers stream through his gate.

The heavy protective tarps were pulled back from the trailered cages so the gawkers could see in.