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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:

If I have not seen far, it is because I stood on the shoulders of midgets.
Grotesque, overdesigned mansions have risen where beautiful, modest houses once stood.
Gore now maintains that while his view of the morality of abortion has evolved, he has always stood behind Roe v.
The new Jewish state of Israel founded on land so recently Islamic Palestine sent shock waves through the Arab world and Egypt found itself at the center of a bloody defeat in 1948 when it stood up against its new neighbor.
Through all his trials, darkness had always been his strength, an obsidian girder holding him to the path; now it stood to crush him and, perhaps not coincidentally, the entire Republican ticket, which his opponent's ever-clever propagandists had labeled as "Dole-Gingrich," as if he and the pumpkin-headed speaker had conspired like Jesuits to ruin the nation.