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.
• There was no camera footage of the killing, and no eyewitnesses.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The heist occurred in broad daylight and was even caught on video by an eyewitness.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• 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
• But one of the officers did speak with a second eyewitness that day.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 27 May 2023
• Manzoni’s, based on an eyewitness account, is a close cousin of those.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• At that point, the eyewitness says, Dallas stopped moving.
  — Mary Helene Hall | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2023
• 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
• Greg Elking was the lone eyewitness to Markus Boyd's murder.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The only eyewitnesses to the shooting that day were the officers.
  — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• Public records show James Yoo, 56, lived in a duplex house on the block shown exploding in eyewitness video.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
• A day after the massacre, life in El Geneina came to a standstill, according to eyewitnesses and video from the ground.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• Another video filmed from a car near the same area shows an eyewitness driving beside a field in which the fiery wreckage of a plane can be seen.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The answer may hinge on what a surviving housemate, the only eyewitness, saw that night.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Not long after, eyewitnesses said, the colleague grabbed a knife from a nearby restaurant and returned to stab Sabika in the chest.
  — Asmaa Al-Omar, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• After speaking to eyewitnesses, Polin believes this was the result of a grenade blast.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
• He’d been stabbed to death, eyewitnesses told Ismail, in broad daylight.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• Rincon was the first eyewitness to the shooting to give testimony.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• At least, according to an unexpected eyewitness: the seat filler who sat next to them.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2023
• An eyewitness told The Post at the time that the strikes came from the Israeli side and that there was no indication that fire from Lebanon was coming from anywhere near the journalists.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
• All of this has been documented in videos and eyewitness accounts.
  — Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2024
• But the video appears to confirm an earlier eyewitness account that said as much.
  — Lea Skene, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• The camera serves as an eyewitness to a societal ill, a problem that needs a solution.
  — Beth Saunders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
• An eyewitness said that immediately after the crash, the driver stepped out of the bus, ripped his clothes off and started screaming.
  — Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
• The transcript of the driver is the first extensive eyewitness account of what happened in the armored vehicle to be made public.
  — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the book, there’s not only eyewitness testimony to McVeigh’s presence outside Mount Carmel during the siege, but a photo of him there.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Jessica said an eyewitness to the altercation that left her brother dead has said the killing was not in self-defense.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
• The eyewitness said some of the militants were carrying guns inside the hospital.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• Children from nearby schools were also hit by tear gas, eyewitnesses told CNN, as many schools were in the vicinity.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024