How to Use eyewitness in a Sentence

eyewitness

noun

• He was able to give an eyewitness account of the shooting.
• The police are hoping to locate an eyewitness to the shooting.
• No eyewitnesses saw the killer enter or leave the house and the killer fled with the murder weapon.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2019
• According to an eyewitness, the mishap occurred around 7:30 p.m. when the crates burst through the back doors of the postal truck.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2019
• An eyewitness said streaks of blood could be seen through her blonde hair.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
• An eyewitness said the man fired the shot when the police tried to overpower him.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• There was no camera footage of the killing, and no eyewitnesses.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• No eyewitnesses placed him at the house on Moran Street.
  — Anna Clark, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2020
• The heist occurred in broad daylight and was even caught on video by an eyewitness.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• The eyewitness took a video and called the Pearl River police, who arrived at the church and viewed that recording.
  — Sara Pagones, NOLA.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• The murder weapon has not been found and there were no eyewitnesses.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2019
• Stewart said there were no eyewitnesses but one person was on the bus at the time.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
• With so few eyewitnesses, the case grew cold within hours and stayed that way.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• An eyewitness told The Mirror that the two had a dinner date outside with drinks.
  — ELLE, 11 Sep. 2020
• Yes, but: The overuse of the same photos, eyewitness videos and reporting from the ground can also pose risks.
  — Sara Fischer, Axios, 16 July 2024
• But eyewitnesses to the fire said two house cats may have perished.
  — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
• Video shot by an eyewitness appears to show the army shooting toward the crowd.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
• The case against him hinged on the testimony of one eyewitness.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2022
• As always, the hope would be to find an object that has eyewitness value, so to speak.
  — Andrew Dickson, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2020
• But one of the officers did speak with a second eyewitness that day.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 27 May 2023
• But the court found that Fairfax did not give CBS any reason to believe there was an eyewitness at the time of the broadcast.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Manzoni’s, based on an eyewitness account, is a close cousin of those.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• In that time, the only eyewitness to the shooting, the hotel clerk, died, according to court records.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Gilleon said that runs counter to eyewitness statements that Wilkins appeared to slip from the railing, not jump.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• Find an eyewitness account here and a timeline of events here.
  — Hannah Jewell, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• At that point, the eyewitness says, Dallas stopped moving.
  — Mary Helene Hall | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2023
• But their telling lacks the same impact as his eyewitness account.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 2 May 2022
• The Post spoke to a second eyewitness who confirmed that civilians were hit by a missile strike.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2023
• An eyewitness told police, according to the affidavit, that the dispute began when Austin asked Anthony to move from under a tent that had been set up for his high school track team.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 24 May 2025
• On Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry, hospital officials and a half-dozen eyewitnesses said the Israeli military was responsible for gunfire that killed 31 people.
  — Lucas Lilieholm, CNN Money, 4 June 2025