Example sentences for: stood

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

  • In the old parks, the structural columns stood within the seating areas, placing the upper-deck seats closer to the game.

  • After he gave the dog the medicine it stood up and it was completely recovered hours later.

  • Roger Ebert wrote "only 40 percent of the audience stood up and clapped," while the Los Angeles Times put the figure at 25 percent, and Daily Variety at 20 percent.

  • She's , for instance, that until recently, men who wrote about alienation stood a decent chance of being taken seriously by critics, while a whole genre of social novels written by women got pooh-poohed as earnest and sentimental.

  • I wanted to die when Gore got up after the Littleton shootings and stood there holding a sheet of paper with a speech on it that he dutifully read from.


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