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passer-by

noun as in eyewitness

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Example Sentences

“He is beautiful,” one accented passer-by says to the camera.

A year or so later, a magistrate fined her when her dog bit a passer-by in the Windsor Great Park.

Many of the inhabitants came out of their houses and gave it fodder, and every passer-by turned out of the way for it.

Many a passer-by would have found it difficult to guess the class of trade carried on by Monsieur Guillaume.

Behind such a wall the passer-by had a glimpse of the upper windows and steep roof of a house of considerable size.

The education of Humanity grows like those Eastern pyramids, to which each passer-by adds his stone.

He fancied that every passer-by looked at him in a peculiar way, with a sort of sarcastic astonishment and curiosity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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