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.
The driver's version of the accident was different from the eyewitness'.
An eyewitness said the jet veered sideways off the right side of the runway and erupted into flames as it hit a runway fence.
They further assert that this value is consistent with eyewitness accounts.
Based on eyewitness accounts, the report described how Pashtun villages were attacked after being disarmed by local militia commanders.
Its inhabitants' manners and mores are documented with eyewitness vividness.
Eyewitness Jan Stone believes the route is dangerous because of the amount of heavy traffic.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
Reliable eyewitness reports of actual events, when embedded in such a list, suffered a serious erosion of credibility.
Eyewitnesses saw two men on a red motorcycle open fire with automatic weapons outside a cafe and then speed away.
After seizing control of the first five ships without fatalities, soldiers rappelled from helicopters onto the largest of the ships, the 590-passenger Mavi Marmara, where passengers affiliated with a Turkish Islamic aid organization known as the IHH attacked them with chains, pipes, knives, and other light weapons, according to eyewitness accounts and supported by videos of the raid taken by israeli soldiers. Turkey Rejects Israeli Find on Raid
I also cited corroboratory reports by the head of the Gaza observer force, Lt. - Col. R.F. Bayard of the US army, and by the editor of Al Hamishmar, Mark Gefen, who was an eyewitness to atrocities including wanton killing, for example, the murder of a doctor at Gaza hospital by an Israeli soldier. Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange
But the eyewitness alerted police and they caught him with his trousers half open.
Another eyewitness described the dangers immigrants faced at the border fence.
There were no arrests and the protest was described by an eyewitness as ‘angry, but peaceful’.
Going by eyewitnesses' accounts of this mysterious person's frightful appearance, he is referred to as ‘acid man’.
The driver's version of the accident was different from the eyewitness'.
Police officers should not speak to eyewitnesses after the lineups regarding their identification or their inability to identify anyone.
Both girls were in attendance and eyewitnesses to the assault and reportedly said so quite clearly.
But eyewitnesses had earlier told the court how the youth had set upon Mr Worrell, kneeing him in the face before deliberately stabbing him in the chest.
This is consistent with recent studies on attention focusing in eyewitness testimony.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
The eyewitness's testimony proved he was guilty.
It seems obvious to me that the appeal of traveling to pay to be an eyewitness is being edged out by staying put and being comfortable. Whither The Live-Sports Fan?
Eyewitness testimony, however, directly contradicts their version of events.
Several eyewitnesses' accounts differed considerably from the official version of events.
Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, most of the evidence for Champ's existence rests on eyewitness testimony.
They saw a distinction between later accounts of events, and eyewitness evidence.
Reliabitity of eyewitness evidence is never absolute.
To me their very restrainedness, calmness, matter-of-factness, if I may so call it, are a strong guarantee that they are the utterance of an eyewitness, who verily saw what he tells so simply. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
Hence, the new image was done on the basis of Don Bosco's little biography of the boy Saint as well as eyewitness accounts gathered for the process of Canonisation .
The prosecution produced no eyewitnesses or physical evidence linking them to the crime.
Eyewitnesses vouch for the fact that they stayed to help the children escape but bolted from the scene when public anger turned against them.
You then give reporters a ride into the jungle, providing what in the news business is called a dateline, which suggests an eyewitness account, and you encourage the gullible to disseminate only your version and its lies. Palestine Blogs aggregator
There will be no more eyewitness accounts of the Somme. Times, Sunday Times
The driver's version of the accident was different from the eyewitness'.
In fact, mistaken eyewitnesses have played a role in 75% of the 273 DNA exonerations we've seen pop up steadily around the country in the last couple decades since we've learned the power of DNA to exculpate the innocent--and put away the guilty. Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Journalists: How You Can Localize the Troy Davis Story
To its credit, the Great Falls Leader devoted a front-page sidebar to the collapse of the dam on Birch Creek, offering chilling eyewitness descriptions of the wall of water that swept down the valley.
Eyewitnesses claim to have seen ‘a beautiful woman with wild golden-streaked chestnut-colored hair wearing a golden tanga with little silver stars embroidered beneath the waistband.’
The God of the Bible has given us an eyewitness report of His works, and He warns us that we are accountable for our deeds - as He proved by inundating the whole world with a Flood in Noah's day.
One eyewitness said the group looked like they were planting vegetables, were practising recycling and doing crafts and had their own electricity generators.
Local eyewitnesses dispute the claim, and allege that only children were in the streets.
Eyewitnesses and Mr. Alvarez's attorneys have said the gun recovered at the scene belonged to Mr. Soto, and that Mr. Alvarez would have only had the weapon because he wrestled it awayfrom Mr. Sotoin self-defense. Melee Charges Rejected
Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face.
My research proposal was The Rate of Memory Trace Decay and its Effect on Eyewitness Accuracy.
Either the eyewitness saw an alien spacecraft or he's a liar.
Dozens of eyewitness accounts were published at the time. Christianity Today
In 1982 during Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Naji al-Ali was an eyewitness to the terrifying massacre that took place in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila.
When those people find themselves on the spot where news is breaking, their diarising is temporarily elevated to the rank of amateur, supposedly disinterested, eyewitness reporting.
It emerged another adult eyewitness was helped out of the country before trial. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, the problematic nature of eyewitness reports was explicitly acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to eyewitness, a grenade exploded in the main market causing injuries to at least 15 people, out of whom two succumbed to their injuries in the hospital.
Eyewitnesses spoke of chaos near the Sari nightclub, as foreign tourists were revelling on a typical Saturday night.
You cannot have a rule, which is set in stone, that in every case you have to have an eyewitness that corroborates.
The petition referred to eyewitnesses reporting his later detention, harsh interrogation and cruel torture.
The troubled confusion of the first day of the uprising produced many conflicting accounts and several mistakes as newspapers scrambled to bring their readers reports on the uprising and pictures and eyewitness accounts of it. 13 A more accurate picture of who had done the shooting and who had been armed with stones for weapons and dustbin lids for protection would emerge only later, although the exact circumstances and chronology of events were almost immediately the subject of heated debates. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
Several eyewitnesses testified against Sophonow but there were problems with each one.
Eyewitnesses say they waded into the students and beat them.
Many of those who marched were tribespeople and students (tribal banners were much in evidence according to an eyewitness.)
His account contains a very lucid explanation of the issues, and continues with his eyewitness account of the proceedings.
In eyewitness accounts, he invariably comes across as weird and awkward. Times, Sunday Times
But eyewitness accounts and her autopsy suggest otherwise. The Sun
The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week.
An eyewitness said at least two people were injured when police chased after protesters into the building. Times, Sunday Times
Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face.
As is usual in cases involving allegations of sexual contact with children, there were no eyewitnesses.
The driver's version of the accident was different from the eyewitness'.
Eyewitnesses report seeing glowing rocks and ash spouting from the crater.
The claim makes me think of the trial where a man was charged with biting off another man's ear in a bar fight. (Incredibly, Mike Tyson was not involved. ) An eyewitness to the fracas took the stand.
The work page of Professor Richard Wiseman: his various intriguing research areas include the psychology of luck; infrasonics; the LaughLab project to find the world's funniest joke; ghosts and hauntings; and investigations into reliability of eyewitness testimony (the last particularly concerning the Indian rope trick). More psychology
Eyewitnesses say that he hurdled the ticket barrier and then ran down the platform to get onto the train.
Reliable eyewitness reports of actual events, when embedded in such a list, suffered a serious erosion of credibility.
Getting firsthand accounts from eyewitnesses is paramount to the story, noted Benedict.
Several eyewitnesses reported observing the airplane flying over the city prior to the accident.
Eyewitness Prableen Kaur describes surviving the shootings on Utoya. Eyewitness account of the Utøya shooting
Eyewitnesses reported that riot vans, unmarked cars and several police vehicles surrounded the yard as officers armed with revolvers and machine guns stormed the site.
Harold Howe, the club doorman and the only direct eyewitness, told a jury in 1986 that Willis was approaching Cain slowly and unaggressively in the alley. Thestar.com - Home Page
If Mr. Morgenthau was so interested in prosecuting armed felons, why has his office dillydallied over a case with eyewitnesses, a confession, a bullet wound and recovery of the weapon? Morgenthau Is Wrong About Guns and the Constitution
The woman, who gave police a description of the killer, is the only known eyewitness to the unsolved homicide.
Several eyewitnesses' accounts differed considerably from the official version of events.
The eyewitness gives a version of events different from that of the complainant.
According to eyewitnesses, the embarrassed singer then fled the poolside area to her hotel room, leaving pool attendants to mop up.
A jogger eyewitness ran to call an ambulance, but the pensioner died from multiple injuries before reaching hospital.
In his very funny portrayal of the scene - the carabineros turn up with a giant water cannon which the locals call The Spitting Lama - he gives a horrific eyewitness account of an old woman being beaten up.
An eyewitness reports that the ground moves in vast waves while the stars seem to stand still. Times, Sunday Times
An eyewitness account described the plane as a "fireball".
The memory researcher appeared on a television show about the unreliability of eyewitness testimony.
Peter Jennings was always itching to be where the news was happening, always asking fellow reporters, eyewitnesses, newsmakers.
His accounts are first hand, eyewitness testimony, and your dismissal is the 'rhetoric' here. From the "Don't Panic" department...
Enough already about eyewitness observations, commentaries, editorials and conspiracy theories.
This has always been taken as an eyewitness account of what actually went on. Times, Sunday Times
The first eyewitness reports of election fraud came shortly after the polls opened. Times, Sunday Times
A soul-searching eyewitness account and immediate action by a journalist helped to at least nab the culprit.
LIN: For our viewers who are just tuning in right now, you are looking at live picture of the World Trade Center tower, where, according to eyewitness Sean Murtagh -- he is the vice president of finance and eyewitness to what he describes as a twin-engine plane -- or possibly a 737 passenger jet -- flying into the World Trade Center. CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2001
CHUCK WRIGHT, EYEWITNESS: I was standing next to the atrium, and all of the sudden I heard these loud noises, like pop, pop, pop in a row and I immediately, I kind of tensed up, and I thought, what is that? CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007
The only eyewitness to that was Brad Townsend who put it at 12.30 am when he saw him at the door.
The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.
Everything was drawn from primary research with living survivors and from documentary eyewitness accounts.
A reporter interviewed eyewitnesses.
An eyewitness reported seeing the craft hit the underneath of the bridge and lose radar and aerial equipment.
Document and Eyewitness's treatment of its main players is affectionate-going-on-hagiographical, but the implication of that end-point is inescapable. Document and Eyewitness by Neil Taylor and Shadowplayers by James Nice
Several eyewitnesses' accounts differed considerably from the official version of events.
Hulitherium from New Guinea (Greenwell 1994), now extinct, has always struck me as a non-starter: eyewitnesses have never described Yowies that sound at all diprotodontid-like [diprotodontid ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A land mine blast in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed eight people, and mortar rounds fired by insurgents at the city airport as the president returned killed six, eyewitnesses and medics said Sunday. Reuters: Top News
The guests present on the occasion tried to resolve the dispute amicably but all the efforts to motivate the groom proved futile, the eyewitnesses said.
an authentic account by an eyewitness
In the southern city of Assiut, eyewitnesses said riot police set upon some 100 activists staging an anti-government protest Wednesday, beating them up with batons and arresting nearly half of them. Egypt Protests: Photos Of The Clashes
His manuscript included declassified satellite imagery and maps as well as eyewitness statements, personal photographs, stills from a documentary film, and other items.
According to eyewitnesses one of those who shot at the canvassers was a uniformed ANC Daily News Briefing
His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
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.
Eyewitnesses said the 17 horses stampeded over a tiny bridge on the steep downhill path then tried to get around a sharp left turn.
With most of the eyewitnesses gone, however, and the tattered clippings picked dry, writers are left to "reinterpret" the facts, leaning heavily on imagination. NYT > Home Page
The brother, whilst intoxicated, was an eyewitness and his evidence was important.
According to an eyewitness, he was cornered by a group of anarchists. Times, Sunday Times
To my way of thinking - and with all due respect to Administrator Griffin - disparaging a finding in the independent review panel's report as an" urban legend "doesn't do much to encourage that needed openness ... especially when the chair of that same independent panel is prepared to testify that the finding is based on voluntary interviews with eyewitnesses to the incidents. Dysfunctional Communications At NASA - NASA Watch
The conviction was based on the evidence of eyewitnesses, none of whom saw the knife in the hands of anyone but the appellant.
An eyewitness account of the excesses of the 1970s rock scene, this memoir is compulsively readable. Times, Sunday Times
Eyewitness Kurt Haskell reported that a sharply dressed Indian man escorted him to the gate and told the attendant that the knicker bomber had no passport but needed to get on the flight. Brennan: Failed Christmas bombing not like 9/11
We just heard from an eyewitness who said there was some kind of jackhammer that was being used and all of the sudden the bridge just completely collapsed. CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007
He went on to launch a characteristically scathing attack on the newspaper, and on the eyewitness testimonies of the night in question.
I make the observation that very rarely is there an eyewitness to offences of this type.
One eyewitness described how the man took three shocks from the controversial weapon but said it had little effect.
Some implications of these results for eyewitness testimony and for the psychology of driving are considered.
An eyewitness had seen the man playing with the two children shortly before the abduction and did not think he was a threat to them.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
Experts would make jurors and trial judges overly skeptical and inclined to reject the testimony of eyewitnesses.
According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
Tom and Gerry were eyewitnesses to the incident and both made statements to the police which they subsequently signed.
So we are invited to relish the very excesses of a Goering, to excruciate in the intellectualizing of a Speer, and to be appalled by the evidence (eyewitness, documentary, and candid-camera) presented.
Particularly important are its compelling eyewitness interviews, since there are still those among us who actually believe the Holocaust never happened.
At 09:42, it is assumed that she heard ringing from inside the fridge as she was seen pulling the now unstuck door open by two eyewitnesses.
Reliable eyewitness reports of actual events, when embedded in such a list, suffered a serious erosion of credibility.
In 1982 during Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Naji al-Ali was an eyewitness to the terrifying massacre that took place in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila.
Her claims even go as far as describing an apparent attempted murder to which she was the eyewitness.
It included eyewitness accounts of multiple killings of unarmed protesters and the killing of at least 20 prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
A strong case, according to this view, includes the testimony of an eyewitness.
In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
Two eyewitnesses positively identified Mr Porter as the killer.
But the most useful piece in the jigsaw is an eyewitness account. The Sun
Sally wants to know more about her _trajet_ from India -- to take the testimony of an eyewitness. Somehow Good
Numerous eyewitness accounts provided to Gambling911. com confirmed Corfman's son, Steven, was unnecessarily "kneed" and "shouldered" by the guards for no apparent reason. Gambling911.com RSS News Feed
Investigators are still amassing a great deal of information based on eyewitnesses and what they called various sources. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2002
If stock charts were the equivalent of eyewitness testimony, St. Joe Co. would have an open-and-shut case against the companies responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Sneak Play
A number of hypotheses have been presented to explain eyewitness accounts, ranging from misidentification and coincidence to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.
DNA forensics is starting to reveal just how fallible eyewitness reports can be.
Some implications of these results for eyewitness testimony and for the psychology of driving are considered.
But the key piece of evidence is an eyewitness account of your seizure. The Sun
It is an eyewitness account recorded at the scene during the action, a foundation of the practice of science that is as important as experimentation and observation. A Short Guide to Writing About Science
An eyewitness said at least two people were injured when police chased after protesters into the building. Times, Sunday Times
The prosecutor had an ace in the hole: an eyewitness.
She has catalogued scores of eyewitness accounts, has discovered a Sasquatch "nest" near Twain Harte and swears she was once close enough to the creature that dirt was still falling from the sides of deep,14-inch footprints it left behind. Archive 2007-01-01
Loaded with anecdotes from their crazy early days, this biography features eyewitness accounts telling the story of the band. The Sun
Goobermunch says: dr. bilbo: (2) A few eyewitnesses in particular an Al-Jazeera reporter, claim that Israel used live ammunition before the navy boarded. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident
Talk, in the form of reportage of ‘breaking news,’ including eyewitness reports and rumors, is the frontline mediator of the event itself.
How do they distinguish between wild rumour and a genuine account from an eyewitness? Times, Sunday Times
It emerged another adult eyewitness was helped out of the country before trial. Times, Sunday Times
His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.
Several eyewitnesses reported observing the airplane flying over the city prior to the accident.
According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
Eyewitnesses have reported ‘large flames licking up the outside of the building,’ suggesting that such a fire might easily have caused serious injury.
It was News at Ten that pioneered the idea of eyewitness reporting. Times, Sunday Times
Groklaw members report leads, scan and format legal documents, and send in eyewitness reports from sessions of the court.
Eyewitnesses told of the horror of being crushed, of falling and then having other people falling on top of them.
Innocent people are convicted each year because of mistaken eyewitness identification.
It may be helpful if a friend can provide an eyewitness account of the event.
I am going to deal with the evidence that you heard of the eyewitnesses.
Eyewitnesses reported that one of its wingtips hit the tarmac and the jet crashed through an airport fence and then exploded.
When you have four eyewitnesses that testify to someone under oath, you know what they call a defendant after that?" he asked. NYT > Home Page
He acted in complete reliance on the account of a couple of eyewitnesses.
A delegation of town officials and leading citizens, “looking as amiable and noncombative as a parcel of sheep,” according to an eyewitness, gathered. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
So there is no doubt in the whole wide world the prosecution must tell you about all eyewitnesses, and they did not.
ANDREW CHUNG, EYEWITNESS AT HOSPITAL: Well, Larry I was in the waiting area of the intensive care unit in one of the hospitals here in Montreal called Sacred Heart when I saw some attendants wheel a bed into a nearby elevator, followed by some other people that were carrying luggage. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2009
The prosecutor had an ace in the hole: an eyewitness.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a small explosion above one of the plane's wings suggesting that decoy flares had been fired.
The clues are colder than the corpse and the case looks like it'll remain unsolved -- until an eyewitness is discovered. Book Trailer: Heavy Metal Pulp - Pleasure Model by Christopher Rowley
A number of eyewitnesses stress the lack of ethnic homogeneousness within what superficial observers regarded as being cohesive Italian settlements in American cities.
It emerged another adult eyewitness was helped out of the country before trial. Times, Sunday Times
Eyewitness testimony in court cases - even from witnesses who are absolutely positive about what they saw - should be taken with a grain of salt.
Eyewitness reports construct a detailed description of the man.
Two armed men, described by eyewitnesses as being of African descent, got out and started shooting at the group.
Loaded with anecdotes from their crazy early days, this biography features eyewitness accounts telling the story of the band. The Sun
Much of the seminal work in major areas of forensic psychology, including risk assessment, psychopathy, eyewitness testimony, victimology, credibility assessment, and criminal behaviour, has been done here.
Eyewitnesses said the 17 horses stampeded over a tiny bridge on the steep downhill path then tried to get around a sharp left turn.
Times carries a graphic eyewitness account of what it calls the "overwhelming destruction" in the western Libyan city of Misrata. BBC News - Home
I don't trust the government and the family has had their chain yanked so many times that it would be good if an eyewitness from the family went to make sure they go to that specific gravesite. Hargrove, Joseph N.
He was investigating whether hypnosis enhanced accurate eyewitness memory recall.
Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was covered in tarpaulin to prevent onlookers seeing the body.
Lacking written proofs and irrecusable documents, the Nuremberg court was forced to base itself on ‘eyewitness accounts’.
Eyewitnesses had told the police that the vehicle of the security forces had an insignia of "hangul" (red deer). The Economic Times

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