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Example sentences for: stead

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

In a proxy fight , the acquiring company asks shareholders for their "proxies"--that is, the right to vote in their stead in management elections.
In the 13 th century, courts commonly required custodians to serve defendants' punishments in their stead when their wards skipped, even if this meant standing in for a hanging.
It will stand him in good stead, he hopes, if he is ever lost in the veld.
The sophisticated scenario: Clinton will escape unpunished and, in his stead, Blumenthal will be prosecuted afterward.