passer-by in English

noun
1
a person who happens to be going past something, especially on foot.

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1. Every passer-by envied them two very much .

2. 8 A passer-by called the emergency services .

3. You ask a passer-by for directions to the Americana Hotel.

4. 15 synonyms for Bystander: onlooker, passer-by, spectator, witness, observer, viewer, looker-on

5. In 2007 he beat a passer-by in the street and was jailed for few days.

6. 30 Her booming voice, very frightening to children, was usually occupied in gossiping to every passer-by.

7. And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse- chestnuts, candelabra - wise, proffer the passer- by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.

8. Having busked on Hollywood Boulevard, and Balladeered in Berlin, she can turn a growly Nirvana song into a heartbreaker, and a passer-by into a cheeky accomplice.

9. The Conquhar was a swift, clear-running river coursing over its bed of gneiss, well tucked-in on either side by green hayfields, where the grasshopper for ever "Burred," and the haymakers stopped with elbows on their rakes to watch the passer-by.

10. Knitandpurl commented on the word Arborescence "And finally, beyond the winter-garden, through the various kinds of Arborescence which from the street made the lighted window appear like the glass front of one of those children's playthings, pictured or real, the passer-by, drawing himself up on tiptoe, would generally observe a man in a frock-coat, a gardenia or a carnation in his buttonhole