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Example sentences for "spectators"

Lexicographically close words:
spectacular; spectaculum; spectare; spectat; spectator; spected; specter; specters; spectra; spectral
  1. They stay, and, Stephen stationed in the midst Where, first, a circle of spectators round Was ordered in disorderly array, Prepare to act their dreadful blasphemy.

  2. But, whenever a more subtle and profound intellect sets itself up and shows consistency in a higher manner, the spectators deny the existence of any character.

  3. It fronts the town, so that the spectators seated upon the highest row of benches, enjoyed the prospect of all its principal buildings and quarters.

  4. This theatre is not calculated to hold so many spectators as the one already described though its area is considerably larger, being from forty-five to fifty paces in diameter.

  5. It has forty rows of seats; between the tenth and eleventh from the bottom occurs a row of eight boxes or small apartments, capable of holding about twelve spectators each; fourteen rows higher, a similar row [p.

  6. The musicians had begun to play a popular barn dance, and the two spectators watched the dancers catch step to it.

  7. Mrs. Ward was the moving and executive force; the rest of us were simply admiring and sympathetic spectators of her enterprise and zeal.

  8. Presently, the prettiest Impromptu in the world was enacted, and very proud indeed were the spectators of a scene memorable for many years in the chronicles of fashion.

  9. In the pit the spectators were arranging themselves.

  10. Eagerly and with deepening excitement did the spectators watch the progress of this straining chase.

  11. Then the spectators could see that of the latter there was only one left.

  12. Perhaps the best tennis of all was shown in the tenth game, when applause by the spectators was almost continuous.

  13. And, lastly, the chain was taken down and put away in a bag, without any of the spectators discovering in what manner the different animals had been spirited into space!

  14. The man plants his foot furiously on the frail basket, and plunges his sword into it again and again, while the ears of the spectators are rent and their hearts touched by the child's cries of agony.

  15. The scene became so horrible that even the spectators could no longer endure it, and in sympathy with their cries the master of the ceremonies stopped the race, leaving the youth, unconscious, on the ground.

  16. It went so high, that the spectators wholly lost sight of it.

  17. At length the disturbance ceases; the lights are rekindled; and the Tadibe steps forward unbound; the spectators of course believing that he has been assisted by the Tadebtsois.

  18. To convince the people of the absurdity of their apprehensions, the teachers, as soon as the idol was converted into ashes, roasted some bananas upon them, of which they ate, and invited the spectators to partake.

  19. Sharp nailmarks on the poor fellow's face told of the scrimmage, and all the time the guards on the walls and the spectators roared with laughter.

  20. Spectators filled the windows, perched on the gallery-railing, climbed and clung on the projecting parts of columns.

  21. This was no acting, however; it was Maggie's nature to throw herself into attitudes before spectators or alone.

  22. In the impassioned reply which followed this address it was noticed for the first time by the spectators that Maggie scarcely did herself justice.

  23. As a reason for his refusal he said that explosives in the buried magazines were beginning to go off, making it highly dangerous for spectators to venture near them.

  24. The civic populace get it, and, as soon as they have been readjusted to the altered conditions forced on them by the presence of war, they become merely sluggish, dulled spectators of the great and moving events going on about them.

  25. As the older spectators realized what was afoot a growl of dissent rolled up and down the street; and a stout, red-faced matron, shrilly protesting, ran out into the road and cuffed the boys until they broke and scattered.

  26. I am under an archway, with blank darkness before me, with a smiling man holding a flaming tallow candle by my side, with street spectators silently looking on behind me.

  27. The spectators always connected these tricks with witchcraft, and supposed them to be done by means of magic.

  28. In the evening they met together with the nobles and ladies who had been spectators of the sport, and the time was passed in feasting, dancing, and singing.

  29. The dazed spectators caught sight of a white service uniform, as the intrepid Dan Davis plunged into the sea, disappearing beneath the waves.

  30. Kester had taken his corner, but when he saw the temper of the spectators he grew ill at ease.

  31. How they missed knocking the boy out the spectators were unable to say, but somehow the lad managed to escape being hit, though his awkwardness made them groan in sheer sympathy for him.

  32. Good for you, Dan," whispered Sam, while the spectators were shouting their approval.

  33. Five thousand spectators viewed the struggle from a hill comparatively out of range.

  34. When the spectators became boisterous, the sheriff was ordered to clear the court-room, and, during certain testimony, the judge requested that the ladies withdraw.

  35. The gods sit comfortably as spectators who feel themselves to be invisible.

  36. The great curtain, or awning, extended above the auditories of the Roman theatre and amphitheatre to protect the spectators from the sun and rain.

  37. The remainder of the circle, the orchestra, was reserved for the evolutions of the chorus and for the stand of the musicians, the thymele; it was not until the development of the Roman theatre that spectators were admitted to this enclosure.

  38. The effect was admirable, and pleased the spectators even more than the patient.

  39. There is laughter at sallies of indecency, and the spectators grunt their applause.

  40. As many spectators as could find elbow-room squeezed into my room behind them.

  41. As if it were not to die, and yet be the patient spectators of our own pitiable change!

  42. And some, like sour spectators at the play, receive the music into their hearts with an unmoved countenance, and walk like strangers through the general rejoicing.

  43. Though an hour had sufficed the jury to reach their decision, the farmers and market-gardeners who had formed the mass of the spectators had forestalled it and scattered to their homes.

  44. There were full three minutes in which each of the spectators waited for another word.

  45. The spectators uttered a cry of horror and pity; anger seemed to have deserted them in their turn.

  46. But the others were too excited to remain inactive spectators of the scene.

  47. Close to the railing and at right angles to the jury box, the eight-foot-long counsel table, where she and Wiley had taken their places with their backs to the spectators outside the railing, were so exactly like a theatrical audience.

  48. The jury smiled, the spectators laughed, the gavel fell for order, and Mr. Wiley sat down.

  49. Texans and Mexicans had ceased fighting as if by common accord, and remained horrified spectators of this atrocious combat.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spectators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.