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Example sentences for: standby

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

As for getting your manuscript back, it's pretty clear that Jane isn't going to ask, and you don't want to, so let's try Prudie's standby: a lawyer letter.
The spread of lighthouses and decent navigational charts had crippled the old standby, the wrecking trade.
To this list one can add a pair of complementary economic terms that is emerging from strictly technical usage into everyday patois--the one an old standby that is newly diversifying, the other its mirror image, just beginning to find a public.
Anyway, Instinct is built around that theater standby, the series of charged encounters between a psychiatrist and a shackled patient, during which it dawns on the doctor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that he and his society are the ones who are actually in need of curing.
) Decent interval , another modern standby, is an interval whose length no mechanical or atomic clock can measure; the only instrumentation that works is emotional.