looker-on
Example Sentences
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“I am by nature a looker-on rather than a taker-part.”
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2017
When he arrived in Paris, in the seventeen-forties, at the age of thirty, he was a deracinated looker-on, struggling with complex feelings of envy, fascination, revulsion, and rejection provoked by a self-absorbed élite.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2016
"Are you her," asks a looker-on, "or are you the drill?"
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2011
"Christ, oh Christ . . . the King's horse!" cried a looker-on.
From Time Magazine Archive
As it happened, however, the enemy had seen fit to change its tactics, and instead of the new graciously polite Lawrence, there was only the old casual, indifferent looker-on.
From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude
