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US
/ˈaɪˈwɪtnəs/
]
[ UK /ˈaɪwɪtnəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈaɪwɪtnəs/ ]
VERB
- be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes
NOUN
- a spectator who can describe what happened
How To Use eyewitness In A Sentence
- Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
- As the tragedy unfolded, the eyewitness tried to find a lifebuoy.
- They were based on the sketches or accounts of at least one eyewitness. The Times Literary Supplement
- All too often the information they provide, and the supposed eyewitnesses they interview, are undependable.
- On top of the 500 reporters traveling with the military and the three cable-TV news channels beaming 24-hour coverage there's a new element in this war: unfiltered eyewitness accounts online.
- DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea. Robert Amsterdam
- Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face.
- But then, whoops, here comes an eyewitness that places him taking the car and bringing it back, covered in mud, 1,000 miles on the odometer.
- There is one eyewitness account that suggests they might have been. Times, Sunday Times
- Eyewitnesses spoke of people having to fight their way to get near the image, while roads round the temple became bottlenecks of traffic.