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How to use onlooker in a sentence

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As the support and every other onlooker held their breath, it was Wilkie who blootered it clear before the Dutchmen could pounce.
It put the onlooker in the position of a privileged eavesdropper, able to pick up every nuance of an intensely private exchange.
There is an energy about her that dances erratically, a kind of life-enhancing raucousness that makes the onlooker feel just a bit more alive.
In this sense the spectator is doubly positioned as an onlooker outside the text.
Above the imperial doors the onlooker discovers the princely bicephalous eagle.
No nation can stand aside as an idle or wondering onlooker while the world progresses rapidly.
In the weeks following our interview, I find myself using the distancing technique, in which I narrate my situation as if I'm an onlooker.
The most concerned onlooker is Germany, which sees its credit lying behind the entire euro area.
This will or ought to be the message from the November jobs summit, where Mr Flynn should be little more than an onlooker.
I believe that the history and the creation of a work are never written in advance, they are revealed by the onlooker.
This is the first time I have heard a party calling to fight against the Chinese aggression,' a young onlooker said.
The Commission, as I have said before, is not a silent and disinterested onlooker in this debate.
On one occasion an onlooker also tied the jackets, but others in the crowd were not satisfied and asked that they could secure him further with chains and handcuffs.
As Matsen explained the provenance of each layer of paint, an onlooker decided to climb inside the bathysphere.
The DPRK can't remain a passive onlooker to the terror-ridden suppression of Chongryon and Korean residents in Japan, which are now running wild.
As the girl walked off to try her blandishments on a more responsive onlooker, another girl glided up to Conan and tapped on his arm.
Perseus was flying back from killing the gorgon Medusa, a glance at whose face, ringed with writhing serpents, would turn any onlooker to stone.
It is commonly said that the onlooker sees most of the game, but it is small benefit to him unless he knows the rules of the game being played.
The artists, works and styles are all mixed up, presenting the onlooker with a kaleidoscopic parade of colours and brush strokes.
As an art historian I was an outsider, an onlooker into the art of their ancestors.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To an onlooker they appear to be quaffing the flattest part of the sport, having missed all its head and froth.
He had not been content to take up the position of onlooker and historian only.
And it is often those deaths which seem most terrible to the onlooker, which are least so to the sufferer.
Here and there one which will haunt the onlooker through the rest of his days.
Truly the camarilla were supporting each other, and I, an onlooker, stood amazed and astounded.
This much is said from the viewpoint of the ordinary sensible and chivalrous onlooker.
An onlooker would have fancied he heard the creaking of ill-oiled machinery.
So long as this is general, it is not always noticeable, for the uninspired onlooker is without the necessary means of comparison.
Had there been an onlooker, he would have thought Jerry had gone suddenly mad.
The marksman is getting sacked,' mused the onlooker, diagnosing the situation.
The onlooker has no choice but to look at the hypnodisc as well.
To the onlooker who does not know its hazards faro is a funereal game.
To an uninitiated onlooker, nothing could have been more ghastly or absurd.
The onlooker, then, who knows objective oughts doesn't thereby have the information he would need to settle what the subject ought to do subjectively.
Tobacco Trust was beaten by a short head, as of course you know, but Onlooker is a dead certainty for to-morrow.
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