Words similar to standby

Example sentences for: standby

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

(I will have to return to my old contrarian standby, the Unsung Greatness of Oliver Stone.)
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.
' 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.
The New York Times relegates impeachment to the off-lead and instead turns to tobacco, the old standby, to explain the creative ways states are spending the windfall from their victorious anti-tobacco lawsuit.