passer-by

NOUN
  1. a person who passes by casually or by chance
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How To Use passer-by In A Sentence

  • He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
  • His motor-'bus was passing through a region unknown to him -- one of those regions where raw vegetables and meat, varied with crockery and old books, exuberate into booths and stalls along the pavement, and salesmen shout to the heedless passer-by prophetic warnings of opportunities eternally lost. Essays in Rebellion
  • Your happy passer-by all knows, my distressed there is no place hides.
  • A passer-by recorded the incident on film.
  • But his pet labrador was helped to safety by a passer-by and survived. The Sun
  • Once, at a sharp turn where a man's shoulder would unavoidably brush against a screen of leaves, the bushman displayed great caution as he spread the leaves aside and exposed the head of a sharp-pointed spear, so set that the casual passer-by would receive at the least a nasty scratch. Chapter 24
  • A passer-by saw the child fall into the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent, at about 2.30pm yesterday and jumped in to save him. Boy dies after river fall
  • A passer-by spotted an abandoned plastic bag and alerted police.
  • He was in such a hurry to get out that he barged into a passer-by.
  • A passer-by described what he saw moments after the car bomb had exploded.
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