stander-by
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
After all the maxims and systems of trade and commerce, a stander-by would think the affairs of the world were most ridiculously contrived.
From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
His pocket is seldom without a Greek testament or Hebrew Bible, which he opens only in the church, and that when some stander-by looks over.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
He plays no part himself now, but is an onlooker, a stander-by, chronicling, as from a cloistered aloofness, yet with kindly wisdom always, the little things that matter in the lives of those around him.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
He was sensible of his error when too late, and oft reproaches Atticus that, being a stander-by, and less heated with the game than himself, he would suffer him to make such blunders.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
A stander-by may see more of the game than one that plays.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word