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Wiktionary
window-shop

vb. (context intransitive English) to engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything

WordNet
window-shop
  1. v. examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only

  2. [also: window-shopping, window-shopped]

Usage examples of "window-shop".

Dobson stopped occasionally and window-shopped, watching Vulpes in the reflection of the store window.

After lunch they had wandered around the newer part of Arles, window-shopping mostly, but Nicky had bought a handful of postcards to send off to Arch, her crew and friends in New York.

They ate calamari, washing it down with cool lagers before walking through the narrow streets, dodging from awning to awning, window-shopping.

He dragged Jeremy around the corner, in among spacers window-shopping and bar-hopping, ran through, startled outcries in their wake.

I mimed leisurely window-shopping between the shrines, but kept my body language sufficiently unfriendly to deter even the loneliest Westerner from attempting to strike up a conversation.

Lunzie window-shopped along one level and wound her way up the ramp to the next, mentally measuring dresses and outfits for herself.

She window-shopped along Bahnhofstrasse, the main shopping street of Zurich, and she marvelled at the incredible cornucopia of goods in the windows: there were dresses and coats and shoes and lingerie and jewellery and dishes and furniture and automobiles and books and television sets and radios and toys and pianos.

There was still nothing to do but wait, so I window-shopped at the motorcycle shop, resolving that I really would buy one as a gift to myself.

Instead, he window-shopped as he wandered through the streets of Greifswald.

Muscled young men with perfect hair and designer jeans window-shopped in groups.

Turned right on the narrow sidewalk and window-shopped her way along the row.

By ten-thirty Saturday, she couldn't bear to stay around the apartment any longer, so she drove to South Coast Plaza, browsed in bookstores, ate an early lunch though she was not hungry, drove to the Westminster Mall, window-shopped, ate a cone of frozen yogurt, drove to the Orange Mall, looked in a few shops, bought a square of fudge and ate half of it.

The CPU was humming louder than any he had ever heard on the occasions when he had window-shopped word processors.