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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:

The spread of lighthouses and decent navigational charts had crippled the old standby, the wrecking trade.
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.
(I will have to return to my old contrarian standby, the Unsung Greatness of Oliver Stone.)
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.