Sentence examples for looker-on from inspiring English sources
noun
A spectator, onlooker.
Entering the fictional world of a novel from a side door or a servants' entrance, the reader takes up a role as a looker-on.
When he arrived in Paris, in the seventeen-forties, at the age of thirty, he was a deracinated looker-on, struggling with complex feelings of envy, fascination, revulsion, and rejection provoked by a self-absorbed élite.
In 1914, Ladies Home Journall reported that it was now "considered 'smart' to go to the low order of dance halls, and not only be a looker-on, but also to dance among all sorts and conditions of men and women".
It is in the game, and not a mere looker-on; and its judgments of the should-be, its ideals, cannot be peeled off from the body of the cogitandum as if they were excrescences…" (E, 21).
Placed WR Dane Looker on injured reserve.
The BBC was forced to apologise after Inverdale suggested the French player was "never going to be a looker" on Radio 5 Live, shortly after she defeated Sabine Lisicki to win the women's final on Centre Court.
In 2013, the BBC was forced to apologise after Inverdale suggested French player Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker" on Radio 5 Live, shortly after she defeated Sabine Lisicki to win the women's final.
The BBC has received almost 700 complaints in the hours after the veteran Inverdale said Bartoli "was never going to be a looker" on Radio 5 Live ahead of the game.
The problem is that it makes for a convoluted narrative framework and for long periods reduces the Twits to mere lookers-on.
There are more and more lookers on the Lisbon restaurant scene, like 1300 Taberna, sprawling and stunning, with flamboyant lighting fixtures, fanciful plates and cutlery and — most important — appealing food that puts Portuguese staples through mildly inventive paces.
'Hold, hold,' cried the lookers on, 'you are doing too much, and how did you do it at all?'—'The matter is simple enough,' said the long-beard; 'but first, where is my premium?' And when he had clutched the promised bounty he explained.
