Example sentences for: stand-up

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

  • Two people died this week riding "Shockwave" stand-up roller coasters at King's Dominion parks--one in Hanover County, Va., and one in Santa Clara, Calif.

  • But one packaging design thinks out-of-the-tube entirely: Mentadent's stand-up pump (Mentadent Advanced Whitening, Mentadent Crystal Ice).

  • He's James Marshall, a Vietnam War hero and a stand-up guy.

  • As a stand-up comic, he was less interested in jokes than in the desperate, needy impulse behind the jokes.

  • Critics scoff at two new late-night talk shows, hosted by black stand-up comics, as poor replicas of the early '90s hit The Arsenio Hall Show . Vibe , produced by Quincy Jones, and Keenen , made by the creator of the comedy series In Living Color , are pronounced "indistinguishable" (James Collins, Time ) and "hard to stay awake through" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angles Times ). The main gripes are that the programs stick to a "banal" (Caryn James, the New York Times ) talk show formula and have even less bite than David Letterman's or Jay Leno's network show.


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