passers-by
plural ofpasser-by
| 单词 | passers-by |
| 释义 | passers-by plural ofpasser-by Examplesofpassers-bypassers-by The first of these strategies is transparency: at ground-level, three out of four elevations are fullyglazed so as to letpassers-byview interior activity. From theCambridge English Corpus To entertainpassers-by, a musician might as well keep the groove going while practising lyrical improvisation and melodic embellishment. From theCambridge English Corpus They are all neutral and anonymous places where people do not really meet each other but remain strictly passengers orpassers-by. From theCambridge English Corpus Numerous pigeons fed on cereals scattered bypassers-by. From theCambridge English Corpus Most important, railroads andpassers-byhad the same duties. From theCambridge English Corpus He flies his plane over the island and drops the cubes nearpassers-by. From theCambridge English Corpus After he finished with the woman, he charged thepassers-bylike crazy: he hit them, torn up their clothes, and broke their spectacles. From theCambridge English Corpus Take the case of some spontaneous and transitory collective action, such as the one of a couple ofpassers-byjoining their forces in order to push a car. From theCambridge English Corpus They were shameless as if the manypassers-bydid not exist. From theCambridge English Corpus The openings extend the ambiance of an exhibition topassers-by. From theCambridge English Corpus Twenty-six also reported having given produce away to friends, relatives, other selfharvesters andpassers-byas a gift. From theCambridge English Corpus Additional precision is left to contextual clues: the presence of other stores, the flow of traffic, the class of vehicles, and the looks and loads ofpassers-by. From theCambridge English Corpus The performers, as street clowns and acrobats, climbed the fountains and street lamps; curiouspassers-byjoined the procession; the audience multiplied; walking turned into running and finally into a stampede. From theCambridge English Corpus I used to get complaints about blocking the pavements, about shouting obscene remarks at unoffendingpassers-by, and about fouling the neighbourhood in various nasty ways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The driver was apprehended after a chase, but called onpassers-byfor help and again escaped in the struggle which followed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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