They want to see the action

Usage examples of onlookers.

Maia sensed attention not only from stately matrons, but quite a few male onlookers, as well.

To other onlookers, the tense moment highlighted a drab autumn morning.

Then, first out its portal, emerged the bronze figure of the He-Ape, knuckle-walking above the onlookers, carrying a twitching four-legged animal under one arm and a sharpened stone in its mouth.

Maia felt sure no casual onlookers would notice it till morning, and Brod was to retract well before that, whether or not she had returned.

It ballooned outward at frightful speed, causing some of the onlookers behind them to moan.

He proved quick and eager, learning the message thoroughly although eventually they had to chase away a chorus of onlookers who kept interrupting him to be helpful.

Fulk chased off the onlookers and finally only Fulk, Hathui, Breschius, and Heribert were left in attendance, hovering close, anxious and pale.

Lakht, there were still plenty of curious onlookers abroad even in the depth of the night.

Marak seized stray reins, and so did the freedmen and the sons and Obidhen himself, while onlookers gathered from the city gate to add to the confusion.

Despite the duration of the struggle, few of the onlookers let their attention lapse for any reason.

Already he had become aware of whispering, giggling sprites and spirits, a small mob of half-material onlookers who remained somehow just out of sight.

Crowding the bow, the onlookers stared anxiously at the quiet surface as the craft moved slowly into the area of combat.

Calmly the Aes Sedai ignored the onlookers and kept their attention on the curtained palanquin, now in the center of the courtyard.

The onlookers stared at him, with his face blackened and his coat covered with smut, but he staggered to where Loial had propped Hurin against the wall of a house across the street.

Pug lost sight of them as curious, questioning onlookers surrounded him.