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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:

, lost business revenue, staff standby, nonproductive capital investment costs); and
The rejoinder Prudie suggests is, granted, an old standby, but it defuses the situation and everybody gets the message.
Like a thinking man's Johnny Apple, he surveys various Kennedy and Johnson hacks--even tracking down that familiar standby, the unnamed "Washington veteran"--and reaps a harvest of self-congratulatory harrumphing along the lines of "I come from an era when loyalty and gratitude were regally honored," not like these young whippersnappers, etc.
The old standby, Nuit de Paris, is all right (provided you hit the right nuit).
News standby: rankings.