Observer

//əbˈzɝvɚ//

"Observer" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The fact is apparent to the most casual observer.

There may be microscopes involved, bringing us ever closer to the heart of the matter; but even microbiology is objective, adding to knowledge by putting space between an object and its observer.

History is like quantum physics: the observer affects the event observed. Is the Kennedy assassination a particle or a wave?

Opaque? Not at all. Intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions.

His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer.

An observer would have found it difficult to say whether he was nearer to forty or to sixty.

On the wall hung a picture of Mary, forefinger threateningly raised, looking as though she were reading the observer the riot act. "I'm in charge here!" was the inscription added beneath.

I'm an observer.

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Most impartial observers agreed that Sampras had not served well.

Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."

I shall be an observer of the local customs.

The UN sent many observers to the country's first elections.

When the army reached Tsun-i, an enlarged Politburo meeting was called. Teng attended as an observer.

The Vatican and Palestine have observer status at the UN.

The only crew-member to survive the crash was the Canadian observer.

We waited till dusk when the observers' vision was poorest.

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