Sentence examples for the passerby from inspiring English sources

The phrase "the passerby" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to refer to any person who is passing by or walking past, as in the sentence: "We watched the passerby hurry by on the sidewalk."

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the passerby

noun

Alternative spelling of passer-by.

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Against what?" the passerby asks.

The passerby stopped to talk.

The passerby had identified the bust of Franklin as Beecher's.

When the passerby got the tagger in a headlock, he accidentally butt-dialled his sister.

Alex confronts the passerby angrily and starts trying to force their trousers down.

Whenever they were approached, they silently handed the passerby a card.

Rather, it foists itself on the eye of the passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy.

The passerby with whom he'd crossed umbrellas had been, in a manner, right: this was a kind of personal situation.

Was it Oscar Wilde who said that madness is like vomit: It's the passerby who suffers the inconvenience?

The passerby turns out to be and old friend of Miss Woodberry's who comes in to spend a little while with her reminiscing about old times.

The passerby — he was headed for the Bronx Zoo, four blocks north — went back to the sculpture and sat on a bench.

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