Example sentences for: passersby

How can you use “passersby” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Shots of the Flatiron Building under construction are weirdly short on human passersby, implying that the growth required to fill the place is still a hopeful article of faith, not yet a practical reality.

  • They gather every day at this square to compete with their peers and show off their skills to passersby.

  • For the number of workers and passersby, see Port Authority briefing (May 13, 2004).

  • The memory of the first "incident"--the fuzzy, barely audible sound of the person on the other end of the line, interrupted by "break up," the need to scream insanely into the phone, "BRING HOME A QUART OF MILK I SAID" while passersby stare curiously--would be enough to convince people to throw away the damn things immediately.

  • Project her image onto a billboard or looming screen in a predefined geographical space, however, such as the crowded heart of one of America's oldest urban centers, where passersby will just have come from and will immediately go back to neighborhoods scaled to their height and humanity, and you reveal her to be a virtual monster rather than a girl full of moxie.


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