Examples of onlooker in a Sentence
Curious onlookers watched the ceremony.
An onlooker noticed the disturbance.
A crowd of onlookers gathered at the fire.
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With a hundred or so onlookers seated in chairs positioned in a semicircle in the library lobby, the contestants took turns busting rhymes.
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Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
The Owensboro news media and some white onlookers insist that when the lady sheriff didn’t show up to act as executioner, there was anger in the press’s unmet expectations, which then was taken out on the crowd, with the reporters lying about the audience’s unruly behavior.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The curious sight of a large ship so close to shore had drawn no onlookers at all.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
In a video circulated late on Monday, Hamas fighters dragged seven men with their hands tied behind their backs into a Gaza City square, forced them to their knees and shot them from behind, as dozens of onlookers watched from nearby storefronts.
—Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
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Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
The Owensboro news media and some white onlookers insist that when the lady sheriff didn’t show up to act as executioner, there was anger in the press’s unmet expectations, which then was taken out on the crowd, with the reporters lying about the audience’s unruly behavior.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The curious sight of a large ship so close to shore had drawn no onlookers at all.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
In a video circulated late on Monday, Hamas fighters dragged seven men with their hands tied behind their backs into a Gaza City square, forced them to their knees and shot them from behind, as dozens of onlookers watched from nearby storefronts.
—Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Onlooker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onlooker. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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onlooker
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on·look·er
ˈȯn-ˌlu̇k-ər 
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