noun
definition
A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer or spectator.
synonyms
Examples of bystander in a Sentence
These symptoms may be more obvious to the bystander.
He asks a bystander, " Is that Mary Shelley?
They might have considered her an innocent bystander in her relationship with Allen, but being on the sideline again would, at minimum, make them suspicious.
Meanwhile, Sawyer is an amused but highly interested bystander when tension escalates between Jack, Locke, Kate and Ana Lucia.
Rob described a novel radiotherapeutic approach utilizing gene transfection strategies to treat prostate cancer with a bystander effect.
In that year he removed to Toronto, where he edited the Canadian Monthly, and subsequently founded the Week and the Bystander.
Imagine the damages for a valuable horse with serious injury injuring a wealthy bystander.
Such " reactive lysis " or " bystander lysis " can account for injury to cells not recognized by specific antibodies (131 ).
This shows we can become uninhibited in the dark where intimacy no longer prevails Another example of crowd behavior is bystander apathy.
The Bystander (Toronto, 1880-1883), was edited by Goldwin Smith.
That the coarse and imperious nature of the hardy and able ruffian who had now become openly her master should no less openly have shown itself even in the first moments of their inauspicious union is what any bystander of common insight must inevitably have foreseen.
The most important thing that a bystander can do as you give birth is to make sure that the umbilical cord is not wrapped around the baby's neck.
These shows will often glamorize the cheater and show the husband as an innocent bystander.
During the leisure thus arising, Descartes one day had his attention drawn to a placard in the Dutch tongue; as the language, of which he never became perfectly master, was then strange to him, he asked a bystander to interpret it into either French or Latin.