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- noun Plural form of
looker-on .
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Examples
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Jamie edged casually through the fringe of lookers-on.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Accordingly, various instructions and prohibitions have been prescribed for modest deportment in society, such as the directive that “Husband and wife are not allowed to flaunt their love for each other [...] in the presence of others, so that the lookers-on might not come to sinful thoughts” (Kizur Shulhan Arukh 152: 11; Goldin 1961, vol. 4: 20).
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I arrived at the appointed hour, just as Kennedy entered the meeting room overflowing with invited guests and thrice that number of lookers-on.
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And while I was making this pie, at the Photojojo Food Photo Safari on Sunday, I heard many similar concerns from lookers-on.
Fennel Pie? 2008
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It suits the need to say something directly to a guaranteed audience of willing lookers-on and does not demand the same level of creativity and committment that blogging turned out to have.
Twitterpated 2008
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So far, response has been scarce leading lookers-on to wonder whether Wombats fans have difficulty in idenitifying animals when the animal is in stuffed form.
INDIE UK ROCKERS, THE WOMBATS ISSUE A CHALLENGE TO THEIR ONLINE FANS 2008
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And standing wasting time, and encouraging; lookers-on, in the open street too?
Redgauntlet 2008
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And while I was making this pie, at the Photojojo Food Photo Safari on Sunday, I heard many similar concerns from lookers-on.
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The drums beat for glad tidings and the Grandees of the kingdom rejoiced and brought rich gifts and the lookers-on were filled with amazement.
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It was put down when one of the lookers-on lost his eye by a pen-knife thrust into the
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