spectator

Example Sentences

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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

You can watch the show as straight narrative, forgetting the hoax and regarding Anthony, who is as much a spectator as a participant, as just another character.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

What the more casual spectator wants, and gets, is a highly dramatic, bingeable distillation of a sport that involves multimillion-dollar cars going in eccentric circles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 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

She came and sat between myself and the children, and her head moved back and forth between us, like a spectator at a university debate.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz