Thesaurus / passersby
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passersby to come and love us.
THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The front door went up a step from off this rough pavement, where the feet of the passersby rasped and clattered.
SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
He amazed the passersby by alighting before his own front door in Paris where he left his airship while he went and ate breakfast.
THE ROMANCE OF AIRCRAFTLAWRENCE YARD SMITH
They walked slowly down the street, Madge carrying the magazines so that the jackets would not be noticed by the passersby.
THE MISSING FORMULAMILDRED A. WIRT, AKA ANN WIRT
Wilbur looked curiously at the pudgy clerk as he walked away, smiling coyly at the passersby.
MEZZEROW LOVES COMPANYFLOYD L. WALLACE
A few rain-beaten passersby huddled in the doorway to watch the procession off.
JUST AROUND THE CORNERFANNIE HURST
Let a man oddly dressed walk along a thoroughfare—the passersby are interested immediately.
PRINCIPLES OF TEACHINGADAM S. BENNION
The houses began to dance before her eyes, she chewed her handkerchief, and feared the passersby might laugh and jeer at her.
THE SONG OF SONGSHERMANN SUDERMANN
Passersby began to gather and there was nothing left for the colonel to do but turn his back.
THE SONG OF SONGSHERMANN SUDERMANN
Passersby no longer remained mere figures in a dissolving view, through whom one looked as if they were non-existent.
THE SONG OF SONGSHERMANN SUDERMANN