STAND in a Sentence

Learn STAND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for STAND, such as:
1. Truth will stand without a prop.
2. An empty bad cannot stand upright.
3. His stand toward the matter has not changed.
4. She will stand trial / go on trial for fraud.
5. Would you please stand back and let me through.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STAND
stand
 n.  a mental position from which things are viewed
 v.  put into an upright position
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He would have liked to stand there with her all night in the blackness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The Yankees may be scared of us, but after the way General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand branded as cowards before the whole world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  But here I'm going to stand till I'm understanding you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  But you girls must stand up for me if the church members want to run me out of town for doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  "You all must stand by me and not leave me alone with him for one minute," cried Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Setting the candle on the stand, she unlocked the door and in the wavering light she saw Rhett Butler, not a ruffle disarranged, supporting her small, thickset father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  But the Yankees just couldn't stand any more defeats like Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  I don't know how men stand things without crying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  They can't realize how things stand with us, but--Scarlett, some of my men are barefooted now and the snow is deep in Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  So firmly did he stand and so bitterly did he contest Sherman's desire to pass down the valley toward Atlanta that finally the Yankees drew back and took counsel with themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  They could and did lick the Yankees every time the Yankees would stand and fight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  At New Hope Church, fifteen miles farther along the hotly fought way, the gray ranks dug in for a determined stand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  Scarlett felt that she could stand it no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  But he did stand up to the Yankees, you ignorant child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Truth will stand without a prop.
2  She couldn't stand the frustration of not being able to help.
3  If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
4  We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
5  We must not allow reaction to stand in the way of progress.
6  Trust always can not stand test, appear so vulnerable.
7  Getting some work experience now will stand you in good stead when you apply for a permanent job.
8  She was asked to take the witness stand and was then cross-examined by the state attorney.
9  Would you please stand back and let me through.
10  An empty bad cannot stand upright.
11  He was criticized for his tough stand on immigration.
12  His stand toward the matter has not changed.
13  She doesn't stand on her dignity and treat the rest of us as servants.
14  Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
15  She will stand trial / go on trial for fraud.