What's the difference between onlooker and watches?

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.

Watches


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (2) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (3) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
  • (4) The government has been counting on the fact that their attacks on the NHS are too complicated to be widely understood: after all, their Health and Social Care Act was much longer than the legislation that created the NHS under Aneurin Bevan’s watch in the first place.
  • (5) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
  • (6) Milan’s 4-0 win over Steaua in the European Cup final in 1989 was a great display so I’ve made my players watch the video.
  • (7) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
  • (8) Yet Malema's influence continues to grow and his travails are watched with interest.
  • (9) Four million viewers tune in to the show every week and two million more watch online the next day.
  • (10) Lessons have been learned from previous Games, not least London 2012, in how to best frame the sporting action for maximum impact – not only for those watching on television but those attending in person.
  • (11) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
  • (12) The UK is a country we are watching closely on these issues.
  • (13) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
  • (14) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
  • (15) I watch three hours of Smiley, then I have lunch, then I write for a couple of minutes. '
  • (16) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
  • (17) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
  • (18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
  • (19) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (20) They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa."

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