onlooker

Example Sentences

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Another onlooker, 18-year-old Zoe Perez, was on the verge of tears.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

“I’m just trying to go to dinner,” she tells the camera in a video captured by an onlooker, “and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

“How’s the weather been?” he asked one onlooker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

An onlooker warned the agents, “You gonna let him die.”

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026

It was just the way she said it, suddenly so false even an onlooker, if there’d been one, would have seen through it.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro