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 suspects then were said to have forced him to the ground as bystanders ran away.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 July 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
  • Fed up: The question is whether the victim has more of a right than a bystander.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 June 2022
  • The killing was caught on bystander video that went viral.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • An unnamed male bystander who was sitting in front of the bar was shot in the hand.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • And face it, Kyle is at a price point where there has to be more than passive bystander.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In a video taken by a bystander after the shots were fired, McMillan could be seen on the ground in front of the door to the store.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The two appear to grapple on the ground as a minivan drives up and a bystander arrives.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Damante said Worcester had tackled one of the deputies and punched him in the head before what is seen on the bystander's video.
    — Andrew Demillo, ajc, 30 Aug. 2022
  • One cop turns to a man in a blue shirt, an unidentified bystander.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • For her part, Sydney was just relieved the Heimlich — and the bystander — worked.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The bystander, Elisjsha Dicken, is being praised as a hero.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2022
  • As well as his four bodyguards, the blast killed four bystanders and injured 16 more.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The bystander video was recorded by a high school student.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • 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 Stop and Go last year was the scene of a gunfight inside the store that killed a teen bystander and wounded two others.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 May 2022
  • The bystander tries to intervene again, and Duffy is seen on video striking the person.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Some played the victim, some played the innocent bystander, and some played the villain.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Videos posted by bystanders showed the plane, missing a wing, spiraling to the ground.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Not a single one of us in this room and not a single one of us across this country can be a bystander.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The driver who maneuvered the vehicle into the valet area at the front entrance of the hotel was killed in the explosion, and at least seven bystanders were injured.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Jan. 2025

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