SPECTATOR in a Sentence

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93 example sentences for SPECTATOR, such as:

1. Learning is not a spectator sport.
2. He was deeply absorbed as a spectator.
3. The most popular spectator sport is football.
4. Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.
5. A spectator threw the ball back to the players.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPECTATOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spectator
 n.  observer or audience; one who looks on
Classic Sentence: (83 in 6 pages)
1  That which had seemed incredible in the sober light of day had really come to pass, and he was to assist as a helpless spectator at Mattie's banishment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  But I knew it was over and I could no longer be a spectator.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  She had set off so many newcomers on the social stage that she was like one of those pieces of stock scenery which tell the experienced spectator exactly what is going to take place.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
4  Of this scene, Duncan, who, in his eagerness to report his arrival, had entered unannounced, stood many moments an unobserved and a delighted spectator.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
5  The melancholy air, the hour, together with the vast frame of the man who thus leaned, musing, against the English ramparts, left no doubt as to his person in the mind of the observant spectator.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  Placing himself at an angle of the works, where he might be a spectator of the scene without, he awaited the result with as much patience as he could summon.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  He was deeply absorbed as a spectator.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
8  From this present view point he was enabled to look upon them in spectator fashion and criticise them with some correctness, for his new condition had already defeated certain sympathies.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  Haley had stood a perfectly amazed spectator of the scene, till Eliza had disappeared up the bank, when he turned a blank, inquiring look on Sam and Andy.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Miss Ophelia did not make an immediate answer; and Eva, who had stood a silent spectator of the scene thus far, made a silent sign to Topsy to follow her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  I have noted the struggle between abolitionist and colonizationist, and have received some impressions, as a distant spectator, which could never have occurred to me as a participator.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the spectator's attention.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
13  The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
14  He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a spectator.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
15  Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly attentive.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
Example Sentence:
1  A spectator threw the ball back to the players.
2  The most popular spectator sport is football.
3  Learning is not a spectator sport.
4  I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectator.
5  Now just opposite the grandstand was a post some ten feet high, with a small beam projecting from the top toward the spectators.
6  A moat separates the animals in the zoo from the spectators
7  The spectators in the amphitheater cheered the gladiators.
8  At the last minute, we roped in a couple of spectators to complete the team.
9  Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.
10  The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators.