bystander

Example Sentences

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Even after Blanc arrives, he’s confounded to find himself occasionally standing on the sidelines, a bystander in Jud’s moral crusade to herd his congregation toward righteousness.

From Los Angeles Times

Scientists have long debated whether water in these confined regions simply behaves as a passive bystander or affects how molecules interact.

From Science Daily

The driver then attacked a bystander who was trying to intervene.

From New York Times

Then, in a moment that was captured in a bystander’s video and shared widely on social media, the four were loaded into the bed of a white pickup truck.

From New York Times

They might be invited to reflect on homelessness in their own city and whether they had perhaps been bystanders to the suffering of their neighbors, much as many Europeans were to that of Jews.

From Washington Post