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Example sentences for: stood

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When this bold figure of Ericson was unveiled in the 1960s, and later used in a U.S. postage-stamp design, it stood for the righting of one of history's great wrongs.
The South African priest who invited Clinton to do so is quoted in the paper as saying that once Clinton stood up, he was thinking about "how much embarrassment it would have caused him by my saying, please sit down."
At one point in the evening I stood up from her couch and an end-cushion fell to the floor, knocking a full glass of red wine onto her Persian rug.
This week, she stood before a judge, raised her right hand and took an oath.
Although speaking immediately after Yeltsin, Clinton noted the heavy civilian casualties inflicted by the Russian army and made an analogy: If Yeltsin had been jailed (instead of elected president) after standing on a tank in defiance of the 1991 Soviet coup, Clinton argued, "I would hope that every leader of every country around this table would have stood up for you and for freedom in Russia, and not said, 'Well, that is an internal Russian affair that we cannot be part of.