When to Use Passersby
Passersby is a plural noun. It is the plural form of passerby, which is someone moving alongside a person or event. The verb to pass means to move alongside, and the noun passer refers to someone who does so. Its plural is passers.
How do you use the word passerby?
Examples of passerby in a Sentence
A passerby saw the accident and stopped to help. Passersby were asked if they were registered to vote. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'passerby.
Does passerby have a hyphen?
For sheer wackiness, first prize goes to “passersby.” Like a lot of two-word compounds, passerby has, over time, gone from being hyphenated to being one word, called a “closed compound.”
