Example Sentences

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A large crowd of amateur photographers, space enthusiasts and assorted lookers-on watched the lift-off from an adjoining beach.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2022

This is the way a meme ends: its nihilism co-opted into earnestness by embarrassingly sincere lookers-on not online enough to know better, and trying too hard.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022

His swearing in was turned to spectacle, complete with throngs of adoring lookers-on, invocations of the divine, and a gun salute.

From Time • Jan. 13, 2017

Despite all the prestige, money, and adoring lookers-on, at a certain point altruism no longer represents any kind of long-term strategy.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2014

The lookers-on become impatient of their customary duty of showing sympathy, because they find it too much trouble to maintain the appearance of this emotion for any length of time.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm