How To Use Rubberneck In A Sentence
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I didn't feel like I was watching the response; I felt like I was rubbernecking.
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He never was one for being interested in that kind of thing, he hates rubbernecks with a passion.
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Ignore the title, with its whiff of poverty rubbernecking - this is terrific.
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traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers
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I felt like a rubbernecker, but was compelled to know more about this lady.
Luxury's 'Freak Category'
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A number of people were starting to gather, rubbernecking at the fire.
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It is no lollygagging rubbernecker of sorrow.
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It's a hard place to miss, especially with all the gawkers rubbernecking for any celebrities from the lower floors.
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Well, the boffins reckon it's related to the "rubbernecking" concept - the process whereby you try and drive by an accident without having a shufti but "our emotions of concern, fear and curiosity cause us to stare out the window at the accident and slow to a crawl as we drive by"...
"Porn makes you bind" - distractions distract...
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It is a restaurant that is popular in terms of both culinary delivery and good old rubbernecking social buzz.
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However, you can't shake the feeling that you are rubbernecking at a shattered family's grief.
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The neighbors to the left of this house are out front, rubbernecking.
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Like a rubbernecker driving past a horrifically bloody accident, I can't seem to stop myself from watching the carnage.
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But there were delays too on the eastbound carriageway as a result of drivers rubbernecking, which saw vehicles slowing down so their occupants could take a look at the accident scene rather than continuing to drive on.
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Outside, the crowd gathering to watch the crisis grows ever louder, and we realize they're not simply rubbernecking - they're angry!
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The cars slowed down and the drivers rubbernecked after the accident
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Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets, relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
Archive 2009-08-01
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As the boyfriend and girlfriend slowly walked off, rubbernecking over their shoulders, McCraig suddenly spoke up.
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Everyone was tired and worried and the rubberneckers were making them feel "dispirited", he said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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That's one of the many pleasures of baseball - a guy can keep score, never miss a pitch, and still rubberneck at the spectacle in the stands.
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Pitt planted tall trees outside his home to block rubberneckers.
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Rubbernecked, bigfooted Olive Oyl loping across the tracks like an ostrich towards a tattooed roadman in a yellow hardhat.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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People cried out in pain as security guards brandishing flagstaffs as batons pushed back the rubbernecking crowd to allow the procession to pass.
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Judging by these participatory self-portraits, Caravaggio shows himself intensely curious about history and society, prepared to rubberneck on our behalf and report back what he sees.
The Misery Memoirist
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People on motorbikes, the most common means of transport in Hanoi, slowed down and rubbernecked.
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Just as rubbernecking slows traffic, so the true-crime obsession has been slowing podcast development.
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Plus, they cause unabashed rubbernecking wherever you go - and not necessarily in a good way.
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But what is clear is the "rubbernecking" that this story is causing as if people are watching some roadside disaster.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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By keeping rubberneckers back, police minimize the danger from gunfire or explosions.
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If someone's house down the road is set alight, you can't tell me you haven't made your way slowly down the street, rubbernecking as you ‘go to the shops to buy some milk’.
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There were lots of tourists rubbernecking in the street.
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Rubberneck, the beating stopped, a pause, peeked out between his fingers.
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For all the moral panic, this drama was much better handled than the brazen rubbernecking that went on inside Joanna Yeates's home.
Joanna Yeates' last days and an intrusion too far | Barbara Ellen
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But perhaps this is what makes for such great literature -- the same energy experienced in rubbernecking at an auto wreck and recounting the horrors at a dinner party the following week; no need to work on the first response team, or in the O.R., because we, as readers and writers, like to keep our distance while pretending to understand.
When Reality Intrudes
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More than one fellow rubbernecker judged it fortunate the truck overturned before having a chance to careen across the gravel parking lot and through the beanery's front windows.
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Let's face it, we're a nation of rubberneckers, eager to gawk at any accident as long as it is not our own.
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People rubbernecking in the southbound lane caused a second accident.
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Links to this post another obit of note • Cody's Books in Berkley closes on June 20th after 52 years. rubbernecking • for those of us who are curious, here's a first hand account of a brand new Kindle and its owner from the Common Craft. off topic • I put a water bottle dohicky on my bike yesterday, so when I die from a heart attack I will be well hydrated.
Archive 2008-06-01
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What should have been a ten minute trip to the Upper West Side turned into a winding adventure of gridlock, rubbernecking, loud horns and cruising endlessly for a parking space.
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This was rubbernecking in every sense.
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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
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At times Rubberneck wept, shed, and for no apparent reason, bucketing tears in dreadful fits of sadness.
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When you're a superstar performer and you've mainly humiliated yourself (and your family) and haven't done anything to directly betray or cheat your adoring fans, all you have to do is let time pass to allow your ADD followers to "rubberneck" some other star's or celebrity's personal train wreck, then come back and perform superbly and not only will you be forgiven, you may be re-anointed as a hero.
Just Listen -- "All Is Forgiven Tiger"
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Guards escorted us out of the shadows and into the morning sunlight of the street where curious neighbours rubbernecked from windows and doorways.
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Like rubbernecking at the scene of a fatal accident, I am repulsed yet, at the same time, I cannot seem to pull my eyes away.
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People rubbernecking in the southbound lane caused a second accident.
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It came like a Buick from the sky but it was on fire or close enough, hot anyway, blistering white and maybe even velour in places, its rocket engine disturbing the neighborhood at a molecular level, at an emotional level, the individual blades of grass in the lawns rubbernecking it in small imitation of the men, who have the beer and the cigarettes and the vocabulary of denial.
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I watch the show like a rubberneck passing a car accident.
'Heroes' recap: Oh Mohinder, You've Done It Again! | EW.com
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If I went to New York I would be worse than a rubbernecker.
Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking
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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
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 another obit of note • Cody's Books in Berkley closes on June 20th after 52 years. rubbernecking • for those of us who are curious, here's a first hand account of a brand new Kindle and its owner from the Common Craft. off topic • I put a water bottle dohicky on my bike yesterday, so when I die from a heart attack I will be well hydrated.
Bibliophile Bullpen
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But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather, at the luckless Rubberneck.
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The perfect way to rubberneck without holding up traffic; talk about a guilty pleasure.
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The film company had blocked off this section of town but there were thousands of rubberneckers wanting to catch a glimpse of the star.
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It's not just that ESPN, whose spokesman Mike Soltys confirmed Sunday that the network would hire Millen for NFL analysis and college games, will get somebody who'll create a buzz — including from his detractors, who won't be able to stop themselves from rubbernecking.
Millen doesn't deserve banishment from football broadcast lineup
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The camera pans around, taking in the sights, just as you would if you were rubbernecking there in person.
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Yet being in Davos in between the rubbernecking, schmoozing and speculation, one can't help but muse about the process of coming of age, or - as Wikipedia describes it - Mann's exploration of ''art, culture, politics, human frailty, and love'' that he set here.
Man(n)'s Magic Contradictions
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As the always-underrated Rescue Me's final season progresses, Kelly's relationship with Tommy grows deeper, richer and more complex, and there's no one better equipped to handle the show's trademark rubberneck shifts between comedy and drama than the NewsRadio and ER vet.
Cheers & Jeers: Maura Tierney Burns Bright on Rescue Me
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And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck.
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For all our grousing about rubberneckers, who among us doesn't slow down to gawk at a car wreck?
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I am very well aware that I, like just about everyone else I know, rubberneck at traffic accidents.
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The rubbernecking opportunities are endless.
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The whole incident had made me feel indescribably dirty, like a rubbernecker at the site of a car crash.
John Belushi Is Dead
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People rubbernecking in the southbound lane caused a second accident.
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The strangest thing about this book is how compelling it is, and the compulsion of it is not simply that of the compulsion to rubberneck at the scene of a gruesome accident.
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I have to watch once in a while because its like rubbernecking at an accident; you cant turn away and cannot believe what you are seeing.
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan
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If star spotting is your weakness, come prepared for some serious rubbernecking.
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The main bar is always packed with glamorous types, and the restaurant was built for rubbernecking.
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People cried out in pain as security guards brandishing flagstaffs as batons pushed back the rubbernecking crowd to allow the procession to pass.
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We were so busy rubbernecking that we didn't see the bus coming.
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Awful, too, was the public's appetite for it - no better than rubbernecking at a motorway pile-up.
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Sure, if you zone out from the relentless news cycle, you might miss a gory pileup or two, but it's not as though you need to rubberneck every last car crash to realize how dangerous it is out there.
Marty Kaplan: Campaign Colonics
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Becoming a Google rubbernecker -- gawking at someone's life from afar and finding something insulting or embarrassing there -- reminds me of the prank of pasting a "Kick Me Hard" sign on an unwitting victim's back.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
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People milled around, nosily loitering and rubbernecking.
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There were lots of tourists rubbernecking in the street.
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Roadside rubbernecking is passive when compared to folks who brazenly turn up at the scene of a crime or a tragedy and therefore participate somehow.
Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking
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Of the three grunt calls I have like Primos Buck Roar best, Primos rubberneck as well as Hs's True Talker, both work but not as good as the Roar.
I am looking to buy a new grunt call and am down to the Hunter's Specialties' - True Talker and Super Talker, what is the diffe
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Pitt planted tall trees outside his home to block rubberneckers.
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It's part of the human predisposition to rubberneck major accidents.
Palin lands on top of NY Times bestseller list
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After a little more rubbernecking I took Ed to Canterbury Catherdral.
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Clearly she isn’t making these decisions from some “selfless” desire to make the world a better place, but instead to milk everything she can out of it while people are still interested in rubbernecking over her failed political life.
Sarah Palin's meteoric media rise: What's her biggest moment? | EW.com
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As I rubbernecked, I noticed something on the road.
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It's a bit like rubbernecking around the scene of an accident.
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Although I was comfortable enough to rubberneck constantly, I had a death-grip on the harness straps and only let go to take a few very fast snapshots.
Perspective
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They disappeared into their houses, embarrassed at being caught rubbernecking.
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Staring at the nude female sunbather fifteen floors below, her tattooed backside exposed so that everyone in the surrounding high-rises could admire or cajole or admonish from the windows next to their cubicles, office workers on every floor calling friends or documenting the view with cell-phone cameras, I realized that no matter how holy or removed from the everyday we might be, we are all rubberneckers to the mundane absurdities that materialize seemingly out of nowhere.
The Cult of Impersonailty
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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
