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Example sentences for: standby

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' Similarly, reverend means `one who is to be revered,' ordinand is `one who is to be ordained'; an old standby of crossword compilers, deodand , is a `thing to be given to God,' and legend is `something to be read.
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.
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.
The old standby, Nuit de Paris, is all right (provided you hit the right nuit).
Better a neat lie than a sloppy truth hints how rhyme, that proverbial standby, can get the better of reality.