Example sentences for: stand-ins

How can you use “stand-ins” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are windswept mountain peaks, craggy cliffs that plummet to the sea, and emerald valleys that could be stand-ins for Ireland or Scotland.

  • The dogs prowling around, stand-ins perhaps for the observant artist, give an unruliness to family gatherings.

  • What's likely is a bitter battle between Perot and Ventura, conducted through proxies, their respective stand-ins for the Reform Party presidential nominee.

  • Here's the scene at Bradley's only event last night, a talk to an Arab-American organization at an Islamic cultural center in Cedar Rapids: Perhaps 50 members of the group, most of the women in headscarves, sit listening to stand-ins for the other candidates as they wait for Bradley to arrive.

  • "Things used as stand-ins for Liam Neeson while Star Wars was being filmed."


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