I shall never forget that accident because it caused me to be the unwilling witness of a very dreadful sight.

We were again imprisoned, unwilling witnesses of the dreadful drama that was preparing.

He'd make an unwilling witness of the man in the next room.

It rarely showed her happy events, but quite often she was an unwilling witness to agony or despair.

Later he was made an unwilling witness to the disintegration of his parents' marriage.

A thin, cold glaze of horror, as when one has been the unwilling witness to a mutilation.

It was not the first time that they had handled an unwilling witness.

"It's trying to paint a picture for the jury through the mouth of an unwilling witness," he said.

I stood there, frozen, staring, like an unwilling witness to a car crash.

The children are unwilling witnesses to the city's battle against drug-related violence in Queens.