Sentence examples for was bystander from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer or spectator.
And Dan Chiasson springboards from James 1 23 ("For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass") into a poem about how he interviewed (or didn't interview) Janet Malcolm, whose new book "Iphigenia in Forest Hills" originated as an article in the magazine: She'd interviewed herself, I realized later; I was bystander to a rendezvous.
What happened at ChurchKey that night was bystander intervention ― and it may have prevented a sexual assault, said Jessica Raven, the executive director of the advocacy group Collective Action for Safe Spaces.
How effective was bystander CPR in the two children?
There were significant differences in arrest location, bystander CPR, initial rhythm, whether they were defibrillated and whether the arrest was bystander witnessed or EMS witnessed.
There are bystanders everywhere.
But by that time we were bystanders.
Several of the victims were bystanders.
Three were bystanders and three were from my team.
Moreover, internationally we should not be content to be bystanders.
"So, you peons, you don't matter, you're bystanders".
