goggled; goggling
: to stare with wide or protuberant eyes
goggled with amazement at the huge statue
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Examples of goggle in a Sentence
Verb
He goggled in amazement at the huge statue.
goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade
Recent Examples on the Web
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
—Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.
—Paul Theroux, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
Alan Sherman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Verb
Over and over, we are invited to goggle at such amazingness.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
Mok, the former second-in-command of the Yellow Neck daofei, goggled his eyes in surprise.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Any human eye, goggled by a car’s windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.
—Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.
—Paul Theroux, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
Adjective
For baitfish, there has been goggle eye jacks and ballyhoo around the pier.
—Alan Sherman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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“Goggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goggle. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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goggle
2 of 2 adjective
: being bulging
goggle eyes
goggle-eyed
adjective
ˌgäg-ə-ˈlīd
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