Example sentences for: standing

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

  • So one of the children, standing in a customs line in Frankfurt, shouted, “Look, Dad, see that great big FAT lady!

  • We are then left standing there to sort out this unwieldy stack.

  • Readers of long standing are aware that a few years ago we discontinued both The VERBATIM Book Club Catalogue (because filling orders became enormously complicated) and, after five years, The VERBATIM Annual Essay Competition (because the number of high-quality submissions was diminishing).

  • Like a starving man standing before the bounty of ...

  • None other than the emperor Napoleon III himself snatched up the glorious Souvenir de Mortefontaine for 3,000 francs and hid it away in the palace at Fountainebleau, where he could admire in private the great horizontal sweep of the central tree, and the standing woman's posture echoed in another, barer tree.


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