Sentence examples for rubbernecker from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone who watches, a spectator, in the sense that they crane their neck as though it were made of rubber. Especially those who watch accidents.
- The minor accident caused a traffic jam as rubberneckers slowed down to get a good view of the battered cars.
A business trip to Bangkok will buck up the glummest Van Wyck Expressway rubbernecker; the traffic there, as in so many automobile-plagued Asian mega-capitals, is apocalyptic.
Overheard in the doorway of a model room at Bloomingdale's, one female rubbernecker to another.
Have I become what my mother called a rubbernecker and what my father, more bluntly, called an idiot?
Leyner's greatest literary fear would seem to be that his reader might look away, so he crowds his pages with everything a rubbernecker could want: a twisted carnage of ideas and cultural objects high and low, as if your smartest professor in college were receiving tabloid transmissions through a filling in his tooth.
"As a young man, I was often told that I was a daydreamer, a rubbernecker, an exaggerator," he said.
Neither the Limbaugh fan nor the Limbaugh rubbernecker is apt to find anything new here.
Instead, the plinth has become a place for rubberneckers to congregate, shake their heads and wonder what on earth has become of the club.
But while her inaugural effort has earned no shortage of criticism, it seems people can't quite look away, rather like rubberneckers gawking at a traffic accident.
The Guide Rouge was restricted to eating and sleeping, which left the Guide Vert series to instruct rubberneckers in the French sights.
Yves Smith points out that China is also likely to cut rates this month, suggesting that everyone is stuck in the same leaky boat.And rubberneckers, look out.
Mr Blagojevich's lawyer, whose courtroom style resembled that of an apoplectic cabbie trained by Maria Callas, insisted it was just talk.The verdict was the latest anticlimax in what has been a disappointing summer for rubberneckers.
