Examples of onlooker in a Sentence

Curious onlookers watched the ceremony. An onlooker noticed the disturbance. A crowd of onlookers gathered at the fire.

Recent Examples on the Web Watching the towering 600-pound Yamamoto, who started teaching amateur sumo wrestlers in the United States 10 years ago, rise from a metal folding chair to demonstrate the throat-thrust technique on a student makes an onlooker’s muscles tense up. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 The game turned dramatically on that play, less than a minute into the second quarter, which an experienced onlooker could have anticipated. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022 Posing for photos on the red carpet with their daughter, the onlooker said the parents were open with their affection towards one another. — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022 Video footage of the attack, which took place at about 2 p.m. last Friday in the center of the eastern Italian beach town of Civitanova Marche, was captured by an onlooker, but no one was seen attempting to intervene. — Safire R. Sostre, Essence, 2 Aug. 2022 According to an onlooker at the Houston Rockets vs. — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022 Mostly, there’s a bracing openness to new possibilities, as well as a refusal to even consider the assumptions — some racist, some ageist — a concerned onlooker might bring to the situation. — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022 By the time an onlooker writes down the result of a play, the Colts are already lined up for the next one. — The Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2022 Amid the bustle of Tijuana, the average onlooker might miss the bulge in Claudia’s belly. — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022 See More

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