How to Use bystander in a Sentence

bystander

noun

• Two innocent bystanders were injured in the shooting.
• The bystander pounds on the door for the officers to open.
  — Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• The bystanders helped pull Lyons from the car and laid him on his back to start CPR.
  — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• In the first video, the fight begins to break up as a Black bystander joins in.
  — Jeremy Gray | , al, 7 Aug. 2023
• None of the shots hit the targets, but one grazed a bystander.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
• Craig was a bystander and was not involved in the chase.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2024
• That’s about when the bystander video picked up the encounter.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2021
• The suspects then were said to have forced him to the ground as bystanders ran away.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 July 2024
• The man’s wife and bystanders pulled him from the water and began CPR.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• To a bystander, a graph may be a line that shows the progress of a sales metric over time.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• The bystander video of Floyd’s death was in vivid, clear color.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• The episode was taped by a bystander and appeared on the local news.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2020
• The cause of the crash appears to have been a bystander who was trying to get a sign on TV.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 27 June 2021
• Fed up: The question is whether the victim has more of a right than a bystander.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 June 2022
• The killing was caught on bystander video that went viral.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• He’s the father of the bystander seen in the flashback dream earlier in the episode.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
• An unnamed male bystander who was sitting in front of the bar was shot in the hand.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
• And even if there is, il-6 might be a bystander rather than a driver.
  — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
• The person who hit the animal left the scene, but a bystander stopped to help it.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2021
• The trio ran off and bystanders tried to help the victim stop the bleeding in his leg, Swadener said.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Albertville police at the time said he was caught with the aid of a bystander who chased him.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2021
• Police said Harris was a bystander at the scene of one of the shootings.
  — Alta Spells, CNN, 4 Apr. 2021
• Hamas gunmen sit on her body, and bystanders spit on it.
  — The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
• The victim called for help and was rescued by a bystander, the release states.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• And face it, Kyle is at a price point where there has to be more than passive bystander.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022
• The woman who was with the man and bystanders tried to intervene.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2025
• In a video taken by a bystander after the shots were fired, McMillan could be seen on the ground in front of the door to the store.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022
• The two appear to grapple on the ground as a minivan drives up and a bystander arrives.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2023
• In a photo and video captured by a bystander and shared on X of the April birthday stroll, Cruise walked next to de Armas with his hands behind his back.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
• The standoff and shootout concluded around 3 p.m., and no officers or bystanders, including the woman and the baby, were injured in the incident.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 29 July 2025