Again, a passerby is the one who saw something, pulled over, saw the bodies, or at least one body at that hour, called the authorities. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006] Reference
"passerby" out in my part of the country who was charged by a farmer's ferocious boar. From Wordnik.com. [Address to the United Nations Security Council and Exchange with Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin on the Presence of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba] Reference
Irrelevant objects dropped by an innocent passerby. From Wordnik.com. [Hit TV Shows Spawn Summer Camps for Couch Potatoes] Reference
I dare any passerby to look at my son and judge him. From Wordnik.com. [Indelible Love: My Son's Tattoos and Me] Reference
Shortly after midnight, a female passerby called 911. From Wordnik.com. [He Could Run... ...But He Couldn't Hide] Reference
A passerby eventually escorts the woman to a shelter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2006] Reference
A kind passerby offered her a hug, and she broke down. From Wordnik.com. [Muslim Warriors--For America] Reference
A passerby used a fire extinguisher to douse the flames. From Wordnik.com. [Ferrari recalls 458 Italias after a spate of fires] Reference
A burly passerby grabbed him; I flagged down a police car. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster] Reference
The man attacked the passerby, then fled in a silver sedan. From Wordnik.com. [Montgomery County crime report] Reference
A passerby confronted a man committing a theft at a restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [Montgomery County crime report] Reference
AMOS: Nasser hands a petition to passerby Mustapha Abbas Khalil. From Wordnik.com. [Blogging And Tweeting, Egyptians Push For Change] Reference
Portman "wasn't just along for the ride, a casual passerby," Fisher charges. From Wordnik.com. [In Ohio, two races test Democrats' strategy for midterm elections] Reference
A heated confrontation ensued, Smith El said, but a passerby broke things up. From Wordnik.com. [Things get heated between Fenty and Gray supporters] Reference
A casual passerby would not have seen his chest move or heard a murmur of breath. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for Wanda] Reference
So special that Roland combined finger jabs with Blackberrying, grabbed a passerby. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008] Reference
MOOS: ... to ease congestion on barricaded sidewalks so crowded passerby got entangled. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2001] Reference
MOOS: So special that Roland combined finger jabs with BlackBerrying, grabbed a passerby. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2008] Reference
So pretty were they, in fact, that more than one passerby turned around to look a second time. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
It's like asking a passerby for directions, except you're more likely to get where you want to go. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphor Is The Message] Reference
Its very isolation is sometimes a cause of the lack of attention to its appearance to the passerby. From Wordnik.com. [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference
But it looked like a lot of passerby-ers were attempting to take pictures with their camera phones. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2007] Reference
Everything was gray: the weather, the buildings, the clothing of the occasional passerby on a bicycle. From Wordnik.com. [Women, Wine And Weapons] Reference
"Excuse me, are you sitting on Mary Easty?" asked a passerby, looking for an ancestor hanged on Sept. 22,1692. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering The Witch Hunt's Victims] Reference
On this May day the passerby would have stopped that he might carry away this scene of perfect pastoral charm. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
During the afternoon shoots, I was selected as a passerby who refuses the leaflets handed out by the protesters. From Wordnik.com. [My Big Date With Nicole] Reference
In the village of Mkutano, two small boys standing at an intersection warned a passerby of just what was happening. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Valley of Death] Reference
In "Prince and Broadway" (2002-10) the plain ov al face of a passerby echoes a green traffic light in its shape and intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of an Artist's Hype] Reference
"They touched the lives of so many, even the people who just came in to the store," said a passerby who declined to give her name. From Wordnik.com. [Crash kills co-owner of landmark Purcellville store, his wife and her mother] Reference
On your wrist they sit very crinkly and strangely and the common passerby might mistake them for a set of old, weakened hair elastics. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Stamell: Silly Bandz: All the Rage With the Kids These Days] Reference
When a female passerby reaches around to adjust bunched-up underwear, the girls on the steps let out a collective cry of "We saw that!". From Wordnik.com. [Fights, teens among challenges as D.C.'s Gallery Place entertainment area matures] Reference
The poorer people would arm themselves with great syringes and discharge them at every passerby or through the keyholes of house-doors. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
We strolled on, side-by-side, hands clasped behind our backs, as customers and employees slid around us like passerby on busy city streets. From Wordnik.com. [Record of a Living Being] Reference
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