01 | Window Shopping

Today you will learn 5 new English words related to "Window Shopping"

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SEWT Team
September 22, 2025

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Understanding “window shopping” is a fun and useful topic for you, an ESL learner, because it helps you express a common activity in everyday life—browsing stores without actually buying anything. Knowing how to describe your shopping habits, talk about sales, or share your weekend plans will help you connect more naturally with English speakers in casual conversation. Mastering today’s vocabulary will give you the language tools to sound more fluent and relatable in everyday situations. Let’s jump right in!

5 TERMS

  1. Window shopping (Noun / Verb): Looking at items in stores (especially through display windows) without buying them.

  2. Tempting (Adjective): Appealing or hard to resist.

  3. Browse (Verb): To casually look through items without a specific goal.

  4. Impulse buy (Adjective): A purchase made suddenly without planning.

  5. Shopaholic (Noun): A person who enjoys shopping too much and shops often.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

  1. Window shopping

    • I love window shopping at the mall on weekends.

    • We spent the afternoon window shopping downtown.

    • Sometimes window shopping helps me decide what I might want later.

  2. Tempting

    • The sale signs were so tempting, but I stayed strong.

    • That new phone is really tempting, even though I don’t need it.

    • It’s tempting to buy things you don’t need when you’re bored.

  3. Browse 

    • I like to browse clothing racks even when I’m not shopping for anything.

    • She went to the bookstore just to browse, not to buy.

    • You can browse online without adding anything to your cart.

  4. Impulse buy

    • That candy at checkout was an impulse buy.

    • I try not to make impulse buys when I’m trying to save money.

    • His new headphones were an impulse buy he later regretted.

  5. Shopaholic

    • My cousin is a total shopaholic—she knows every sale in town.

    • Being a shopaholic can be expensive if you’re not careful.

    • He joked that he was a shopaholic after buying three pairs of shoes.

EXAMPLE PARAGRAPH

Last Saturday, I went window shopping with my friend just for fun. We planned to browse without spending money, but everything in the store looked so tempting. I ended up making an impulse buy—a cute bag I didn’t need. My friend laughed and called me a shopaholic, even though it was just one little splurge!