The word 'onlookers' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to people who are watching something, such as an event, without participating. Example sentence: The crowd of onlookers applauded as the musicians finished their song.
The debate demands onlookers accept one of two contradictory premises, so there is little room for nuance and the argument never runs out of fuel.
Onlookers asked why Powell failed to select players such as Natasha Dowie, the WSL's leading scorer at the time with 10 goals in 12 games for Liverpool, or why Powell had not spent more time watching players outside the established names, with the Liverpool manager, Matt Beard, complaining that he had rarely seen or heard from her either there or at his former club Chelsea.
There were about 10,000 onlookers at the Waca when Stokes raised his bat to acknowledge the applause that came from all quarters for such a memorable Test hundred.
Some onlookers dubbed the couple who kissed and cuddled on the balcony from time to time "Romeo and Juliet", an epithet they both accepted.
Onlookers were astonished, delighted, appalled, according to temperament and party.
Onlookers are expected to throng to the town's Pannett Park, with its panoramic views of the route through the town.
"Kiss my okole" was Palin's Hawaiian-tinged response to criticism from Peta and angry online onlookers.
The curator gives value to things but also, crucially, performs value – conscious of onlookers.
Two young men were arrested after a previous murder, but only after they had been seized by onlookers, not the police.
One day shooting Breathless on the Champs-Élysées, so many onlookers gathered that Cauchetier couldn't get close.
On 24 February 2015, mounted police, live television crews, protestors and crowds of onlookers surrounded a building called the Bungehuis, a six storey art deco style construction that currently houses the University of Amsterdam's humanities faculty.
