Sentence examples for something of a spectator from inspiring English sources

THE court-ordered auction of the assets of Webvan was something of a spectator sport, Silicon Valley style.

And yet, as Michael Pollan has pointed out, televised cooking contests are turning cooking into something of a spectator sport.

As well as a social activity, barbecue has become something of a spectator sport, with the Meatopia festival in London and Grillstock in Manchester, Bristol and London.

By the mid-19th century, there had been enough improvements in housing and heating to transform winter into something of a spectator sport.

Admittedly, that sentiment reflected a double standard, an indication that keeping tabs on elite athletes peeing into cups was in itself something of a spectator sport.

The Booker Prize, whose selection by the five-member panel usually becomes something of a spectator sport in British publishing, is awarded every year for a work of fiction by a British or Commonwealth writer.

"Man, that was something," says a spectator in a suit as the crowd exits.

The trial was something of a spectacle with many women spectators openly sympathetic to Nanavati.

I thought I was back in Edinburgh!" For the only time in Olympic history, as far as the crowd in the Central Lenin Stadium was concerned, the men's 100m final was something of a sideshow as the home spectators focused on the triple jump where the USSR's Viktor Saneyev, the gold medal winner in Mexico, Munich and Montreal, was trying for a fourth.

"They were all delighted to have him, but wanted him as something other than a spectator".

That approach is something of a conquest — as much for the museum's in-person spectator as for the viewer of "National Gallery".