ONLOOKER in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for ONLOOKER, such as:

1. The French onlookers and listeners laughed.
2. It was almost humiliating even for the onlooker.
3. The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
4. The ring of onlookers distended and closed again elastically.
5. He was an outsider at the best, a friendly onlooker who saw little.

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 Meanings and Examples of ONLOOKER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
onlooker
 n.  one that looks on; spectator
Classic Sentence:
1  s uncle, but an onlooker might even have perceived it as mocking him and he, of course, jumped up as if he had just been stabbed.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
2  It was almost humiliating even for the onlooker.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
3  To an onlooker her beauty would have made her feelings almost seem reasonable.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
4  From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS
5  The gipsy-like student looked about him and addressed the onlookers in an indistinct bleating voice.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  It was found necessary to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  The ring of onlookers distended and closed again elastically.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
8  We know that at Governor's balls it is customary for the onlookers to compose verses at the expense of the dancers; and in this case the verses were directed to Chichikov's address.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
9  Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
10  The French onlookers and listeners laughed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
11  If his sisters or their friends happened to be among the onlookers on 'popular nights,' Sylvester stood back in the shadow under the cottonwood trees, smoking and watching Lena with a harassed expression.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
Example Sentence:
1  He was an outsider at the best, a friendly onlooker who saw little.
2  A firefighter clawed at the debris, trying to get to her. "Come on. ... Come on. Slowly, slowly. Mind her head," they said to one another as onlookers applauded in support.
3  New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak'tun - a period of around 400 years - in the Maya Long Calendar.
4  Disgusted onlookers claimed the driver was more concerned about his car than about the victim.
5  The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
6  A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers.