(n.) One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(2) Asylum seekers detained in the family and single women camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests, Guardian Australia has been told by eyewitness sources.
(3) The briefing points, obtained by the AP, added that "there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations" but did not mention eyewitness accounts that blamed militants alone.
(4) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
(5) Among the others killed were embassy guards – eyewitnesses said they had tried to stop a suicide bomber riding a motorbike near the building's gates, which were destroyed in the attack.
(6) Citing testimony from eyewitnesses and survivors, the UN said Islamic State gunmen arrived at the front gate in a group of pick-up trucks.
(7) The strikes in the area continued on Saturday as dozens of families fled, security officials and eyewitnesses said.
(8) G4S managers “lost control” o f some of their local employees who also joined the violence, according to eyewitness statements .
(9) The revamp of Ten’s news brand as Eyewitness News , beginning on Monday night, has been overshadowed by the shock resignation of the broadcaster’s high-profile journalist, Hamish Macdonald.
(10) Eyewitnesses said that ambulances could not immediately reach the scene of the attack, and that police further obstructed the quick evacuation of the wounded from the square where the explosions occurred.
(11) "In finished reports after September 11, 2012, intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the Mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, but without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion," the committee wrote.
(12) I walked into the newsroom and there was an eyewitness account making allegations [against Ukraine] and analysis, if you can call it, from our correspondent in the studio.
(13) 9.08am BST Reuters has more on the pro-Russian incursion in Slaviansk Six armoured personnel carriers entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, on Wednesday with the lead vehicle bearing the Russian flag, a Reuters eyewitness said.
(14) Five staged-crime experiments were conducted to examine the effect of lineup biases and sequential presentation on eyewitness recognition accuracy.
(15) An eyewitness account of scenes at the Hotel Bibby, the floating accommodation block used by contractors on Manus, published by Guardian Australia on Tuesday , describes wounded asylum seekers being taken by G4S personnel on ute to a makeshift hospital.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
(17) One eyewitness, Michael Kiefer of Arizona Republic, counted the prisoner gasping 660 times .
(18) The performance of those subjects who were given anxiety-arousing instructions at encoding and retrieval and who scored high on the Test Anxiety Scale (TAS; Sarason, 1972) was less accurate on an eyewitness task than was that of the subjects who scored low on the scale.
(19) Eyewitnesses in Sana’a said Houthi fighters and allied military units were repositioning some anti-aircraft units at police stations, causing panic among residents who fear they will become targets for air strikes.
(20) The present study investigated the relationship between individual differences in anxiety and eyewitness performance.
Onlooker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(2) I don’t think, at least in Iowa, her almost celebrity status over some of the others gets her any type of advantage.” Palin confused many onlookers with the directions taken in her remarks, which featured a freewheeling preamble of almost 10 minutes – half the time allotted to each speaker.
(3) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
(4) Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first, before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers.
(5) Onlookers quickly realised there were hundreds of thousands of servers – and Google was making them itself from spare parts.
(6) In the footage a number of police officers can be seen as a group of people, said to be his friends, attempt to obscure him from the view of onlookers filming the star on their mobile phones.
(7) Driving home after dining out with friends, he'd seen the burning car surrounded by onlookers, fire fighters and police, but could never have imagined what the scene signified.
(8) Madonna told onlookers: “Everybody knows why we’re here … we just want to sing a few songs about peace, just to spread love and joy, and to pay our honour and respect to the people who died almost four weeks ago.
(9) One worker leaving the office yelled out to the onlookers: "You're watching history, man."
(10) When they try to rise, they are kicked in the face and left unconscious before onlookers come to their aid.
(11) Onlookers reported seeing the plane flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
(12) Some of the games are based around recognisable sports (like football), others around ancient samurai conflicts – but whatever the theme, the nature of the action is absolutely impenetrable to the casual onlooker.
(13) "I have no doubt she was scared," the onlooker told the Sunday People.
(14) RSA’s excuses have convinced some onlookers, others remain sceptical.
(15) We shouldn’t be passive onlookers to Trump’s pantomime presidency any longer.
(16) He arrived in court wearing sunglasses, smiled and waved at onlookers, and seemed relaxed – perhaps hopeful that today's proceedings would secure his release.
(17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
(18) Several onlookers believe a riot policeman caught her when she jumped, but Adrian insisted he caught her.
(19) Liverpool, with five points out of six games, left it too late and will be jealous onlookers when the Champions League resumes in February.
(20) I have such pale legs and they never burn!” I insouciantly declared to onlookers, a mere 12 hours before I began convulsing, shaking, sweating and finding myself unable to walk for three days.