How to Use bystander in a Sentence

bystander

noun

• Two innocent bystanders were injured in the shooting.
• There’s no sense in an innocent bystander getting shrapnel on her.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
• Authorities were able to get an image of the gunman from a bystander’s cell phone, the source said.
  — Fox News, 12 Apr. 2022
• It’s soon followed by a pack of dogs, chasing the bunny and barely registering the meowing bystander’s existence.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
• The jurors in the civil case watched the bystander’s video during testimony, the affiliate reported.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• In disturbing bystander video of the shooting, about 4 seconds passes between when Green opens the taqueria's front door and when a police officer shoots him.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• But police were able to get an image of the suspect from a bystander’s cellphone video, a law enforcement official told ABC News.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024