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Sentence Examples If you were to ask a random passer-by in Strasbourg how his health was, then that will always count as number one. When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard. From the street the art lover or simple passer-by can look through huge windows and see three enormous screens. He suffered a head injury and was found face down in the shallow water by a passer-by on Sunday morning. They were successfully in drawing the attention of a passer-by and exiting the trunk to safety. They are tough enough to withstand being walked on occasionally and will reward the passer-by with perfume released from the crushed foliage. A year or so later, a magistrate fined her when her dog bit a passer-by in the Windsor Great Park. Finally they picked up a fourth man, a passer-by who had seen the drama and dived in to the canal to help, towing a lifebelt. She escaped with the help of a passer-by but suffered more than 30 injuries, including burns to her face, arm and knees. The mog ended up in a cat rescue centre after a passer-by saved it from a violent group of yobs. As the Scottish actor draws on his cigarette in the vain hope it will warm him up, a passer-by stops to gaze at him. He was astounded when the journalist unexpectedly exploded into violence, laying into a passer-by larking about for the camera. He also used his knowledge of first aid to put him in the recovery position, with the help of another passer-by. A worried passer-by spotted the couple sheltering in a cove and phoned for help. Everywhere were scrub cactus and yucca plants looming with sharp spines to catch the unwary passer-by and stab into the skin. So the passer-by just slides from one symbol to the other, developing a protective shield that lets few things pass. Today, the contemporary passer-by is highly connected through the internet and the mobile phone. For more than an hour, I sat with an empty cup and not one single passer-by even glanced at me. In an emergency situation, attract the attention of a passer-by and ask them to phone for help. The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by. Show More Sentences An investigation has been launched after cast iron guttering fell from a building and struck a passer-by. The attack came almost exactly a year after an armed man threatened to shoot a passer-by who intervened in another failed armed robbery at the store. Marissa, broken by the death of her mother, sits silently with her pet dog, clutching her recorder, while a passer-by pauses to give her a piece of his mind. A passer-by got involved and started shouting and chasing the three people down the street but as he approached them they sprayed what I believe was CS gas into his face. A passer-by, throwing only a fleeting look over the place, would have been completely unaware of it. What is evident to the ear of a passer-by is the incessant beep beep, honk honk. On the left side, tourists could walk leisurely, stop or suddenly change their route, without fearing to bump into another passer-by. Tartarin and Toto are loafing around when a passer-by loses his wallet right under their noses. The passer-by — the passers-by — they see it, too. In spite of these useless answers he made a point of asking every passer-by for directions, even if it was only to break the monotony of lonely hours without hearing a human voice. A plane cannot differentiate a Serb soldier from a Kosovar passer-by. Here the angry and destructive gesture of the passer-by takes on a particular resonance, while the obliterations and bucklings of the images effect a troubling critique. In addition, the car park is separated from the street by a fence, with the result that an occasional passer-by does not have the impression that it is a public car park. Dust, pollution and wear had taken such a toll that a passer-by would no longer notice the wealth of architectural and ornamental curiosities at the Grand Palais. A passer-by who saved a man from being savaged by his own dog and an off-duty policeman who intervened in a nightclub brawl were today honoured for their bravery. A passer-by made a desperate attempt to locate the boys, followed by a park ranger and a police officer who was on the scene within about five minutes. The parents had thrown the child to the passer-by, who caught it as they struggled to escape from the thick smoke which had engulfed the upstairs of their Cook Street home. If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize. The haveli was a world within a world, self-contained and totally hidden from the view of the casual passer-by. Fire crews praised the actions of a passer-by who threw in a life ring after spotting the 28-year-old woman in the water near the promenade. Show More Sentences A passer-by on Franklin Boulevard sprang for food from Evergreen Indian Restaurant for picketers near the campus' main entrance. The sea was washing round her neck when she and pal Tracey Cavin, 11, attracted the attention of a passer-by. The passer-by saw a navy blue saloon car, possibly with a roof rack attached, with a woman looking visibly upset in the front passenger seat. Laid out around the three transit wells that punctuate Les Quatre Temps shopping centre, this bestiary offers the passer-by a digression into a world of marvel. But sometimes there are certain individuals who display an extreme decrepitude and their particularly off-putting aspect seems to want to shock the passer-by. One night not long ago, at 11 p.m., a woman standing on the corner of Spring and James Streets told a passer-by that she would be willing to sell the passer-by crack cocaine. The distressed dog, thought to be a Staffy cross-breed, was handed into the animal charity's Wallasey centre last week after being discovered by a passer-by. Every ten minutes they consulted together as to who could pluck up the courage to ask some passer-by the time. The passers-by were all back street people. Examples from Classical Literature One passer-by stopped to enquire if there was going to be a Battle of Flowers. It is the shadow of some passer-by thrown into relief on the light background. How could the passer-by not be touched by the idea that the stone is so hard? As he was about to return to the charge her Ladyship desired a passer-by to summon her carriage. This sound issued from the ragged individual, but the passer-by did not turn his head. Phelim O'Rourke smokes his dudeen on a bench by the door, and invites the passer-by to enter and examine the trophies. Brilliantly lighted shops called the passer-by to contemplate the latest wavemotor, flying machine, door check, or what-not. They spread out so flat that they make a green roof over the flowers, completely screening them from the passer-by. A passer-by asked them where the bishop was, and they said they hadn't got mook enough to mak' a beeshop. He did not stop the first passer-by, as his manner often was, and desire a fight. Bewildered and oppressed, she touched a passer-by on the arm. The cabman bought a torch from a passer-by, and stuck it in his whip-barrel. But no group is insistent that the passer-by should look at it. Every passer-by might note the limit and circumscription dividing the new place from the ancient seat of the lords of the manor. The only shops of any sort are the low wine shops which open their evil-smelling doors to the passer-by. It must have been flung out in the hope that a passer-by would pick up the note and deliver it, which was what happened. A photograph taken by a passer-by and posted on Twitter showed flames engulfing the back of the car. Some lean lazily against the side-posts, humming to themselves or calling to the passer-by in a raucous voice, and some listlessly read. A TODDLER was rescued from inside a locked car by firefighters and a passer-by with a shoelace. A SHOPLIFTER was stopped in his tracks by a passer-by and a security guard who swooped into action and gave chase in his car. Show More Sentences If I had been a casual passer-by, I should have probably supposed that some childless person lay dead in it. On the roadside there are milestones, and likewise cisterns, where each thirsty passer-by can drink some good water. As we were turning into the low road a passer-by remonstrated. Every passer-by went into the yard, knelt by the side of the dead, said a Pater noster, and sprinkled a few drops of holy water on the bier. A passer-by alerted emergency services after spotting flames coming from a mobile home on a travellers' site in Aylesbury, Bucks. The four-year-old was hauled from the water at Cathays Park, Cardiff, by a passer-by who then began to resuscitate him. He nabbed the first passer-by and asked him to point out Dr. Fitzhugh. The passer-by sees in this glass only the face of the indweller. He cannot see God's world as it is, but eyes each passer-by askance, and looks around him uneasily in order that he may listen to every word that is being uttered. Stephen Pope, 35, was holding a pillowcase of goods stolen from a woman of 89 and told a concerned passer-by he was OK as he lay lay pinned down. But, in order to expiate the sin of avarice, which was my undoing, I oblige each passer-by to give me a blow. This one mystic branch hung down before the main entrance of the Seven Gables, so nigh the ground that any passer-by might have stood on tiptoe and plucked it off. It is an effort to clear up and make a decent appearance when the carpenter and mason have departed, though done as much for the passer-by as the dweller within. Jarvey said a passer-by saw the man jump and alerted authorities. And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms. Sniffles the cat has needed costly operations, X-rays and antibiotics since she was spotted injured in a Cardiff street by passer-by Helen Robinson. On a summer's night, windows are thrown open, and groups of swarthy moustached men are seen by the passer-by, lounging at the casements, and smoking fearfully. The curfew had sounded long ago, and it was only at rare intervals now that they encountered a passer-by in the street, or a light in the windows. Suddenly his vision was assailed by the sight of a rose-colored parasol gayly unfurled in a shop window, signaling the passer-by and setting him to dream of summer sunshine. Find more words! 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