eyewitness
noun
eye·wit·ness
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Definition of eyewitness
: one who sees an occurrence or an object
especially
: one who gives a report on what he or she has seen
Examples of eyewitness in a Sentence
The police are hoping to locate an eyewitness to the shooting.
He was able to give an eyewitness account of the shooting.
Recent Examples on the Web
On today's show, a CNN reporter gives an eyewitness account of weekend protests in Hong Kong. — CNN, "CNN 10 - August 27, 2019," 26 Aug. 2019 Abruzzi and the New York Times reported sparsely on these instances, and several other eyewitness accounts appear in Gittell’s book. — Currie Engel, Time, "People Were Born and Died at Woodstock. Here Are Their Stories," 9 Aug. 2019 The Eisner-winning cartoonist's starkly artful comic was one of the first vivid eyewitness accounts of the 2017 California wildfires, which left 44 people dead and displaced thousands. — Michael Cavna, chicagotribune.com, "Memoir in pictures: Cartoonists on California fires, vagaries of adolescence, and immigrant life," 24 July 2019 An eyewitness told the station that onlookers immediately tried to free the victims before first responders arrived to find a group of beachgoers under debris. — Dennis Romero, NBC News, "1 dead, 4 injured in cliff collapse at Southern California beach," 3 Aug. 2019 Meteorologists then, as today, relied on eyewitness reports. — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "What to know about the F5 tornado that destroyed 90% of a Wisconsin town in 1984," 29 May 2019 And an eyewitness recounted seeing security forces firing tear gas at protesters in Omdurman, a suburb of Khartoum. — Yasir Abdullah, Nada Altaher And Kareem Khadder, CNN, "Tens of thousands protest in Sudan, demanding civilian rule," 30 June 2019 At the time of the fire, smoke drifted across Interstate 580 in the vicinity, obscuring part of the freeway, according to an eyewitness account from a reporter with this news organization. — George Avalos, The Mercury News, "San Leandro businesses destroyed in fire on East 14th Street," 21 June 2019 King was identified as the suspect through security camera videos, eyewitness accounts and social media posts, Young said. — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al.com, "Man accused of following delivery trucks to steal packages from porches," 11 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'eyewitness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for eyewitness
eyewitness
noun
English Language Learners Definition of eyewitness
: a person who sees something happen and is able to describe it
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eyewitness
noun
eye·wit·ness
Legal Definition of eyewitness
: one who sees an occurrence or object or sometimes experiences it through other senses (as hearing) and usually reports or testifies about it
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