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Example sentences for: stand

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With an exhilarating leap of the imagination, you can stand among the columns, arches, and porticoes of the Roman Forum and picture the civic, commercial, and religious hub of the great city, the first in Europe to house a million inhabitants.
The chambers stand on the site of St. Mary’s Close, an old tenement abandoned in the mid-17th century after the entire population had been wiped out by bubonic plague.
Highway 4 follows the lake shore to Cathedral Grove, a formidable stand of Douglas firs in MacMillan Provincial Park, donated to the public by a paper manufacturer as a gesture for government permission to exploit less accessible parts of the forest.
--I stand accused as a "self-described student of econometrics."
Newsweek 's "The Brain's Last Stand" ponders the significance of chess champion Garry Kasparov's rematch with IBM's Deep Blue.