Example sentences for: standing

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

  • When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing.

  • At that point, McCain--who was standing next to Forbes and seemed to be having the time of his life--said, "I'd be glad to, Steve," and actually stepped over and gave Forbes a squeeze while Forbes was trying to answer the question.

  • Lamar, when I happen upon him, is standing in the Agriculture Pavilion gaping at a life-sized interpretation of the Last Supper--sculpted in butter.

  • Operators are standing by.

  • When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.


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