onlookers

Example Sentences

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The rescuers guided Gil out of his would-be tomb, onto a gurney and outside into the crush of onlookers waiting below the tropical sun, already blazing before 10 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2026

Among the other horrified onlookers at Fort Lee was Thomas Paine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

The combination probably explains the excessive growth, turning the water surface an opaque green and preventing onlookers from seeing the new blue hue of the concrete basin.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026

Did Gordon Granger, an otherwise obscure Union Army general, really stroll into Galveston and read a decree from President Abraham Lincoln declaring, to a sea of onlookers, that all enslaved people were now officially free?

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026

The other two pixies perched on her shoulders, hissing and baring their teeth at onlookers.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton