Looking for sentences and phrases with the word looker-on? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Entering the fictional world of a novel from a side door or a servants' entrance, the reader takes up a role as a looker-on.
Or it can be the light on a shoulder that strikes the looker-on and brings him or her in the right mood for 'reading' the drawing.
I asked an astute hockey observer about the player, whom even a casual looker-on like me recognizes as a skilled player, himself dogged by clutchers and grabbers.
When he arrived in Paris, in the seventeen-forties, at the age of thirty, he was a deracinated looker-on, struggling with complex feelings of envy, fascination, revulsion, and rejection provoked by a self-absorbed élite.
Examples from Classical Literature
He would have seen, as only a looker-on could see, what was happening to them.
Were it my nature to be other than a looker-on in life, I would attempt your rescue.
The worst thing was that the farce of it all could only be detected by the looker-on.
I forgot, Roland, that I was the looker-on, and not the player of the game.
One for the looker-on in the struggle who has no eyes for what lies still in shadow.
I have never had an assistant or a looker-on to whom this was not perfectly apparent.
That was his gentle way of intimating that Claude was not invited to be a looker-on.
The whole thing was momentary, and the looker-on could not feel sure.
My friend was a looker-on from the Southern side during the whole battle.
The looker-on was a round, red-faced, sturdy yeoman, with a double chin, and a voice husky with good living, good sleeping, good humour, and good health.
