How to Use bystander in a Sentence

bystander

noun
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  • Two innocent bystanders were injured in the shooting.
  • The bystander pounds on the door for the officers to open.
    — Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The bystanders helped pull Lyons from the car and laid him on his back to start CPR.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In the first video, the fight begins to break up as a Black bystander joins in.
    — Jeremy Gray | , al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Craig was a bystander and was not involved in the chase.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The man’s wife and bystanders pulled him from the water and began CPR.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • To a bystander, a graph may be a line that shows the progress of a sales metric over time.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • The trio ran off and bystanders tried to help the victim stop the bleeding in his leg, Swadener said.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • Hamas gunmen sit on her body, and bystanders spit on it.
    — The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The victim called for help and was rescued by a bystander, the release states.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The two appear to grapple on the ground as a minivan drives up and a bystander arrives.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Garcia stayed on the train while the passenger fled the car and flagged down a bystander for help, police said.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The bystander tries to intervene again, and Duffy is seen on video striking the person.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Videos posted by bystanders showed the plane, missing a wing, spiraling to the ground.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Ash and embers fly through the air, leaving the bystanders blinking and rubbing their eyes.
    — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Much of the online commentary has been around the fact that many Black bystanders rushed in to defend the riverboat crew.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • An Ohio police chase that ended in a fiery crash last week caused a bystander to lose her left arm.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Video taken by a bystander shows the 24-year-old with his arms wrapped around the other man's neck in a chokehold as the two lie on the floor of the subway car.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • Police wrestled a suspect to the ground as screaming bystanders scrambled to get away and smoke filled the air.
    — Mari Yamaguchi and Foster Klug, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Most of those shot were innocent bystanders, police said at the time.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 4 July 2023
  • The Honeymoon singer being just one of the many faces that the starry-eyed bystanders lined up outside the hotel came to see.
    — Condé Nast, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Video from a bystander in the crowd allegedly showed police leading a man away from the scene in handcuffs.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The bystander, who police said did not fire his weapon, fled into Chipotle.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The victim or a brave bystander would cut a slash near the bite site, suck out the venom, and then spit it out, being careful not to swallow any.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The child landed face-first onto the metal rail and rocks before a bystander jumped down to rescue the child before a train came.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Two of the Americans and a Mexican bystander died in the incident.
    — Tatiana Arias, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Seventeen passengers, the driver and two bystanders died in the crash.
    — CBS News, 16 May 2023
  • Alvarez then tried to flee the scene before he was detained by bystanders, police said.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • An unlucky 19-year-old bystander was at a car wash a quarter-mile from the scene when a piece of debris hit him in the head, officials said.
    — Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The dogs ended up attacking the bystander, the affidavit says.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023

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