Crossword clues for onlooker
onlooker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating.
WordNet
n. someone who looks on [syn: looker-on]
Usage examples of "onlooker".
Even the breathing of the onlookers was controlled as they awaited what the Baptist would say to his enemies.
No onlooker could have told whether or not the hand actually touched Beery Hosner.
All his life Bibbs had kept himself to himself--he was but a shy onlooker in the world.
She turned and leaned her back against the bar as Bosco poured a second shot, and Finn watched her stare back pointedly at the curious onlookers.
After a half hour they were alone except for perhaps a dozen onlookers and the families of the two thieves, who were praying and singing dirges at the feet of the condemned.
Their light quivered over the dolmen and dramatized the attentive faces of the onlookers.
This provoked hilarity among the onlookers, shaming to her and her nominee Albumarak, and quickly reproved by Doyenne Greetch, who reminded those in range of the loudeners of the antiquity of this custom.
A score of folk had gathered on the Green since the gleeman appeared from the inn, young men and women down to children who peeked, wide-eyed and silent, from behind the older onlookers.
Two of the lodges each supported a crowd of onlookers,, and though the watchers had turned their attention to the visitors, that was not the reason they were up on the rounded roofs.
I can only say further that his paunchy torso and pimply buttocks and spindly limbs, when totally exposed, were a sight to make most onlookers retch up their most recent meal.
It got so tense that when the onlookers said anything they were pounced upon.
Now he was collapsed into the corner of the booth, his shoulders hunched forward, neck sunk into his frame, sightless rheumy eyes gaping at the onlookers, his mouth rimmed with cracked flesh frozen in a silent scream.
He saw a small crowd of onlookers, horse and foot patrols, and Sayer and Gee, all waiting at a respectful distance from his wife and her captive.
A knot of onlookers had formed around the scufflers, and he plowed into their midst, elbowing them aside.
No sooner had the last petrified reveler fled into the Xeriscape garden or onto the thick green lawn, than the remaining vigas began to pop and crackle under duress and, as the horrified onlookers looked on, the sleazeball trophy manor began to quiver.