Sentence example with the word 'passerby'

passerby

TV-viewer, bystander, deponent, gazer-on, jet set, ogler, pioneer, spectatress, tourist, video-gazer, witness

Definition n. a person who passes by casually or by chance

Last update: August 17, 2015


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In West Africa the Mpongwe believe in local spirits, just as do the Eskimo; but they are regarded as inoffensive in the main; true, the passerby must make some trifling offering as he nears their place of abode; but it is only occasionally that mischievous acts, such as the throwing down of a tree on a passer-by, are, in the view of the natives, perpetuated by the Ombuiri.   [Please select]

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"These English people have not much sense, but if a passerby should hear us speaking German, he would be suspicious."   [Please select]

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| The servant | started | to obey, | but a passerby | had saved him | the trouble, | and had walked off | with the book.   [Please select]

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This signifies to the passerby that it is a house of mourning so that the bell will not be rung unnecessarily nor long.   [Please select]

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A "long veil" is a shade pulled down--a protection--it should never be a flaunting arrangement to arrest the amazed attention of the passerby.   [Please select]

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