onlooker
Example Sentences
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Girl Scouts sing carols as onlookers sip cocoa at the annual lighting ceremony.
From Salon
Carolers meandered through town, drawing no more than a dozen onlookers as they sang “Angels We Have Heard on High” and asked shop owners whether holiday crowds might return.
For neighbors, the Reiner deaths mean the loss of community members — connections not shown on television cameras or felt by curious onlookers.
From Los Angeles Times
Where they once undoubtedly took onlookers aback, they now draw them affectionately in.
Soon the restaurants and bars on the corner shut down, even as the crowd of onlookers and media grew.
From BBC
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