Onlooker
['ɒnlʊkə] or ['ɑnlʊkɚ]
Definition
n. a looker on observer.—adj. On′looking.
Typist: Nathaniel
Examples
- To an onlooker her beauty would have made her feelings almost seem reasonable. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They welc omed diversity of view and the common-sense judgment of the onlooker. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But even for an onlooker in a neutral country, the significance of every move made, of every advance here and retreat there, lies in what it portends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a peculiarity of Hermione's, that at every moment, she had one intimate, and turned all the rest of those present into onlookers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This exhibition took place in August, 1801, before a crowd of onlookers, and at once established the value of the torpedo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That was the bare fact which Bulstrode was now forced to see in the rigid outline with which acts present themselves onlookers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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