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as in to stare
to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way I do wish you two would stop ogling each other during class

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noun

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Recent Examples of ogle
Verb
Willems started by getting the consent of new parents to ogle the scalps of their newborns. Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024 There are too many fans ogling rappers as racist, hypermasculine caricatures who don’t consider the anti-Blackness in demanding artists to live their raps at the expense of their life or freedom. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
Through an unblinking black eyeball, a 20-foot-high scarlet octopus ogles my lunch. Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023 The other two ogle a 2-inch Peter Venkman. Amy Paturel, M.s., Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2020 See all Example Sentences for ogle 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ogle
Verb
  • No one gave him a talk on how to react when people stare at him walking through an airport or dropping his head to get through a doorway.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Doug Brown, director of stewardship at the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, a nonprofit that maintains nearly 14,000 acres of wild land and over 60 miles of trails in this western Massachusetts county, stares into the distant haze, shielding his eyes from the sun.
    Sophie Ungerleider, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Each actor does their best work wordlessly, the fluttering of a throat or a downward gaze speaking volumes.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Finally, Burges felt ready to carry the responsibility of servicing diners through his own unique gaze.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The Harry Potter series is likely to not even begin filming until 2026, eyeing a 2027 release date.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Some seemed camera shy, eyeing the person filming to get out of their space, while others sniffed the camera out of curiosity.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Verb
  • Clingan’s face lit up, and teammates couldn’t help but gawk over the rings.
    Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2024
  • The Washington Post, New Yorker and New York Times all searched for answers, gawking at the hundreds of millions Trump spent on golf properties without uncovering the source of the funds.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • That’s two-thirds of its own mass, and 93% of its maximal gape area.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But this means a snake’s overall mouth size expands in conjunction with the larger diameter, says researchers, who add this means a 10.2-in gape increases its total area by 40-percent.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • All of our experts say yes; just take a peek at the ingredients to determine which might be suitable for your skin.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Padma Lakshmi just gave a peek inside some of the fashion wars happening inside her house.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • These shades offer 100 percent UV protection and filter the reflective glare of the high-altitude sun reflecting off fresh stashes of powder.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Here, there’s only one second in one montage when, during a performance of Medea, Jolie unleashes a hot glare.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024

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“Ogle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ogle. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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