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Example sentences for: stood

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This time, half for show and half in real anger, I stood up, slammed my fist to the table, and shouted, God damn it, I'm not a Yankee!
Moussaoui also stood out for several other reasons.
As the government stood accused by a Russian TV network of claiming less than a tenth of the real number of Russian troops killed in Chechnya, the latest issue of the weekly military newspaper Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye said the official "numbers game" about casualties is losing any relation to reality.
Such a book as Africana simply washes the practitioners in the field in a sea of ambivalence, with a sense of lost faith, as we all stand before it a bit as Matthew Arnold stood before Dover Beach.
When the balance of power among public and private parties was fairly even, the private copyright never stood up for very long.