Example sentences for: standing

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

  • For many years France was a nation of internal contrasts — between the more urban and industrial north and the rural south, between the intellectual elite and the largely agricultural workforce, between chic Paris and the less sophisticated provincial cities — and a nation that saw itself as standing alone, distinct from all others.

  • Other heads of state are also trying to keep the sides talking--the NYT , WP , and LAT report that King Hussein of Jordan has flown to a house he owns in Maryland and was standing by to help, and the NYT says Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has been in contact with both sides.

  • But if I am standing there [in a ring], there is no way I can win ...

  • Standing against a hostile world of cruel Philistines, Florentines loved to identify with the beauty and courage of the poetic young giant-killer.

  • And since then, she has played her part just fine, establishing herself as a separate unit and not just "standing by her man," like Dowd's "failed feminist," but standing by her family, like a grown-up--a condition that Dowd herself curiously never seems to get any closer to as the years go by.


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