Such faces one might imagine in a nightmare, staring on a passerby and failing to see him, from a rack of torture.
Shop windows, freshly decked, tempted the passerby with foretastes of the season's styles in gowns and hats and furs.
I still feel how the imperious look of an unforgettable passerby once tore me; the rude superior deprecation in that look was like a cry rising above the night.
I remarked that as the throng passed the Iberian Chapel, where always before the passerby had crossed himself, they did not seem to notice it.
The late passerby stooped to pick them up; the patrols around bonfires on the corners ran out with uplifted arms to catch them.
She wore her very long, light hair flowing, and was playing with a small doll, a fact of which every passerby turned about to assure himself.
Open places made him dizzy, and not infrequently a passerby seeing his helplessness would lead him like a blind man across the city square.
Of course, the point naturally arises as to whether a passerby who has been hit with the second volume of Gibbon's Rome has a right to demand the whole set.
Probably the best we can do is to allow any passerby who is hit and hurt to keep the book.
She felt as if she would have to hurry after the passerby and ask: "Who are you?
At the approach of each passerbyshe was impelled to hide herself, in the belief that her appearance betrayed her intentions.
He speaks of himself, full of a need of making himself known, of introducing the passerby into his little universe.
Entragues thought, "if I use force, the passerby will be attracted.
I am not the unchaste passerby of the poet, I do not delight in ridiculous, incomplete and dull profanations.
Often they would look askance at some passerby who might be walking a little feebly or unsteadily, and once Joseph saw a man some fifty paces in advance of him stagger and fall to the ground with a lamentable cry.
She was in a lonely street where not a single passerby seemed to be stirring.
He remembers when I tried to be public-spirited and set out a number of fruit trees around the borders of my place, in order that the passerby might have some fruit.
What happened was that not only the passerby wanted fruit, but he wanted it early, and he brought others from a distance who wanted fruit.
A passerby is first attracted by the bright color of a map showing the London subway system.
He was told by a passerby that it was the home of a club waiter.
Many of the proprietors, when they empty a box, instead of putting it to the rear, would stick it in the front, right up where every passerby could see it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passerby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
