bystander
Use Bystander in a sentence
dər noun
a person present but not involved; chance spectator; onlooker.
Synonyms
observer, viewer, passerby, witness; rubberneck, sidewalk superintendent.
observer, viewer, passerby, witness; rubberneck, sidewalk superintendent.
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| —n | |
| a person present but not involved; onlooker; spectator | |
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Bystander
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Example sentences
As she ran after the vehicle, a bystander joined her chase.
More importantly, the senators with the power to restrict the filibuster understand that today's majority is tomorrow's bystander.
On the value of her life, on the possibility of saving it, science faded into a mute bystander.
But if it did not-if the third bystander vocally took sides, say-then violence was much more likely.
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