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Example sentences for: stood

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"[T]he annihilation of everything Cannes has stood for" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). "A spectacular triumph of style over substance," says the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley.
A very pale young man stood up and said that Judgment Day was coming unless the Republic of Texas succeeded.
On 13 July 1789 a young firebrand orator, Camille Desmoulins, stood on a table at the Palais-Royal’s Café de Foy to sound a call to arms.
Culturebox doesn't know, because she hasn't seen the work, and neither do Giuliani, Clinton, et al., but it is at least possible that if she stood before the painting she would think: Aha!
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."