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

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

From BBC • Mar. 24, 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

At this point a spectator in the courtroom’s balcony let out a wail and began sobbing loudly.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose