spectator

Example Sentences

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It’s time to respond with resolve by restoring the capacity of a reformed United Nations to act, so that it no longer remains a mere spectator to events that affect us all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In the past two years, spending on live events, excluding spectator sports, has shot up by $10 billion to a total of $60 billion.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Other significant improvements such as enhanced spectator facilities will be included in the refurbishment.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

With each manicured frame and deceptively poignant observation on the impossibility of living normally in modern life, Kramer concocts an original, wonderfully empathetic study of the desire to play spectator to a world on fire.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

The more profound the thought, feeling, skill, and invention an artist puts into his or her work, the more it unfolds to an alert spectator.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell