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Example sentences for: stood

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

You said you saw the heavens openAnd show riches, ready to drop on us.Levitated beside you, I stood subjectedTo a strange tense: the spellbound future.
She stood before me like a stricken stirk, her eyes glazed and her mouth agape.
The WP reports that at the Nairobi airport as Marines escorted American bodies onto a transport plane, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Prudence Bushnell, herself injured in the attack, stood by with "a bandaged hand over her heart and tears glistening on cheeks cut by flying glass."
But it also said that claims that the bombing was no accident are "simply ludicrous," since "Nato stood only to lose by its action."
In a front-page comment in Milan's Corriere della Sera, columnist Ennio Caretto spoke up for Clinton's presidential record, saying he had corrected the capitalist excesses of Reaganism and that, although he stood accused of betraying the liberal traditions of the Democrats, he had at least--by moving to the center--kept the Right in Congress at bay.