onlooker

Example Sentences

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“How’s the weather been?” he asked one onlooker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Any rational onlooker would assume that the Trojans had held on for good, dispatching of the Ducks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

Nix had surgery last week and was an onlooker as the Broncos fell to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game on Sunday.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

An onlooker warned the agents, “You gonna let him die.”

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026

What he means is that he doesn’t want to be merely an onlooker, that there’s no room for him in all that, and he’s right.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood