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rubbernecker

NOUN
  1. a person who stares inquisitively

How To Use rubbernecker In A Sentence

  • It is no lollygagging rubbernecker of sorrow. Times, Sunday Times
  • traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers
  • Let's face it, we're a nation of rubberneckers, eager to gawk at any accident as long as it is not our own.
  • Pitt planted tall trees outside his home to block rubberneckers.
  • The whole incident had made me feel indescribably dirty, like a rubbernecker at the site of a car crash. John Belushi Is Dead
  • For all our grousing about rubberneckers, who among us doesn't slow down to gawk at a car wreck?
  • The film company had blocked off this section of town but there were thousands of rubberneckers wanting to catch a glimpse of the star.
  • An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss--but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
  • If I went to New York I would be worse than a rubbernecker. Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking
  • But someone clearly objects to rubberneckers such as me coming to gawp at Hitler's legacy: on dozens of the boarded-up windows, someone has spraypainted "Touris raus! Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd
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