Use stands in a sentence
Sentences starting with stands
- Stands on her own feet every time. [11]
Sentences ending with stands
- Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
- The statement in the text concerning a portion of the materia medica stands exactly as delivered, and is meant exactly as it stands. [6]
- We see also the ample area or platform, carpeted with rich stuffs, whereon the throne stands. [5]
- In the new Territories, when a man puts his hand on a weapon, he knows that he must use it; he must use it instantly or expect to be shot down where he stands. [5]
- When I was strong, I often had to go late in the evening to fetch water from the landing-place where the great water-wheel stands. [10]
- He does not stop to load, or consider, or take aim, but lets fly just as he stands. [5]
- Now, as I say, I have taken laborious pains to so trim this book of offense that you might not lack the nerve to print it just as it stands. [5]
- Isn't the situation romantic enough just as it stands? [5]
- We can't make progress the way the matter stands. [5]
- The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. [5]
Short sentences using stands
- It stands to reason. [5]
- He stands in my way. [10]
- It stands for ever. [11]
- The court stands dissolved. [5]
- Thus stands this curious affair. [7]
- Twenty stands of colors! [9]
- That man stands before you! [5]
- There she stands. [10]
- Their sentence stands. [10]
- It stands. [11]
Sentences containing stands two or more times
- It is a very thoughtless thing to say that the physician stands to the divine in the same light as the divine stands to the physician, so far as each may attempt to handle subjects belonging especially to the other's profession. [6]
- The man that stands by himself, the universe stands by him also. [6]
- This law stands right in the way of the subaltern who wants to be a General before he has smelt powder; and it stands (and should stand) in everybody's way who applies for pay or position before he has served his apprenticeship and proved himself. [5]
More example sentences with the word stands in them
- How piously rapt your daughter stands there! [10]
- He desires that you, who wish the Territories to remain free, should believe that he stands by that position; but he does not say it himself. [7]
- Feel her swing!--Safe, you bet, if he stands by the lever. [11]
- After all these years, Mr. Daaken stands before me a prominent figure of the past in an ill-fitting suit of snuff colour. [9]
- The second thing would be to depolarize every fixed religious idea in the mind by changing the word which stands for it. [6]
- The Bavaria stands with the right hand upon the sheathed sword, and the left raised in the act of bestowing a wreath of victory; and the lion of the kingdom is beside her. [4]
- There it stands, with its head in the clouds! [5]
- From central station, wires to all the livery stables, messenger stands, provision shops, etc., etc. [6]
- A good horse will walk three miles an hour over nearly any kind of a road; therefore, an hour, here, always stands for three miles. [5]
- Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it. [5]
- Thar stands the whitest man in America!--and the man that denies it has got to fight me, that's all. [5]
- Who stands firm while others tremble lest their power pass to-morrow? [11]
- In the machine which stands for him. [5]
- But this valley where the Tent stands is for those who have broken the commandment, "Thou shalt not sell thy soul. [11]
- Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. [5]
- It is n't where a pawn stands on the board that makes the difference, but what the game round it is when it is on this or that square. [6]
- But to the west is a shore, and on it stands a fort and a few detached houses. [11]
- I remember very well the day it appeared on our news stands, and the heated denunciations it evoked at the Boyne Club. [9]
- Henceforth the spot was sacred, and I am sure it stands there as when last I saw it twelve years ago, but worn away by rains and winds. [11]
- It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
- The Marquis de Vaudreuil stands for the King, and we are sentinels in the King's house. [11]
- It stands plainly upon the record. [5]
- It has sprung up, as it were; in the night like a mushroom; it stands before us in full daylight as lusty as an oak, and promising to grow and flourish in the perennial freshness of an evergreen. [3]
- I picked it up where he stood when he fired the fatal train," He looked out over the house from his high perch, and his countenance began to darken; he slowly raised his hand, and pointed: "There stands the assassin! [5]
- Deluge, December 7th, two thousand three hundred and forty-eight years B. C. Yes, and the earth stands on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise. [6]
- Now would Mark Twain remark to this: 'An American is not such a fool: when a creditor stands in his way he closes his doors, and reopens them the following day. [5]
- For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen. [5]
- The traction engine travels about on its own wheels, till it reaches the required spot; then it stands still and by means of a wire rope pulls the huge plow toward itself two or three hundred yards across the field, between the rows of cane. [5]
- But Mr. Carvel's town house in Annapolis stands to-day, with its neighbours, a mournful relic of a glory that is past. [9]
- And perfectly indifferent, too, as to whether it turns around or stands still. [5]
- It stands ready to-day to accept anything from any theorist, from any empiric who can make out a good case for his discovery or his remedy. [3]
- Three lamps fastened to stands abundantly lighted this work-room, but chiefly a figure standing on a high trestle, which Polykarp's fingers were industriously moulding. [10]
- There it stands, to remind me that he died. [12]
- And it stands to reason that the arrangement couldn't be improved. [5]
- Well, it stands to reason that if it wouldn't be solemn with one mourner, it wouldn't be with a procession--and there would be five thousand people here. [5]
- She is willing to pay something for the sake of injuring the woman who stands between us, or the old man who has the good or evil fortune of being her rival's grandfather. [10]
- Then we turn to page 20 of the Autobiography and happen upon this passage, and that hasty suspicion stands rebuked: "I gained book-knowledge with far less labor than is usually requisite. [5]
- He stands near to Octavianus, for he was his intellectual guide, and I know that he reveres the Roman's sister, Octavia, as a goddess. [10]
- Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two. [9]
- Wordsworth appears forty-three times, and stands next to Shakespeare; while Burns, Byron, Scott, Tennyson, and Chaucer make up the list of favorites. [6]
- The water streams through faucets in the face of a wall of ancient masonry which stands removed from the houses of the village. [5]
- We only know this; that if she could have obeyed, the history of France would not be as it now stands written in the books. [5]
- But far before this virtue stands another--that of spelling a word according to the sound of it. [5]
- Nor do I think that we need to take shelter behind the wellworn and convenient observation, the truth of which stands in much doubt, that literature is the final flower of a nation's civilization. [4]
- In all these things, I think that we ought to keep in view our real purpose, and in none do anything that stands adverse to our purpose. [7]
- Among these delightful themes stands that of woman, the balm to all our sighs and disappointments, and the most pre-eminent of all other topics. [5]
- There stands Paaker--there the wife of Mena. [10]
- It stands in the way, and prevents the adjustment, and the giving of necessary attention to other questions of national house-keeping. [7]
- This stands in the way of Mr. Adams. [7]
- He stands for the United States in Egypt. [11]
- If he writes the same word twice in succession, by accident, he always erases the one that stands second; has not the first-comer the prior right? [6]
- It stands in the Rue des Fosses-Saint Germain, now Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie. [6]
- As we enter the room, there stands Virginia under the rainbowed prisms of the great chandelier, receiving. [9]
- As long as the monument stands and there is a city near it, there will always be a man to take the names of visitors and extract some small tribute from their pockets, I suppose. [6]
- It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coniston Water, artificially widened here by a stone dam into a little lake. [9]
- The next day the mercury stands at eighty degrees. [4]
- He said: "Then the matter stands like this. [5]
- Asiatics appeared in the majority only in the market place, where the dealers were just leaving their stands to secure their goods from the storm. [10]
- The door of the little room opens, and he stands before his father, looking down at him. [9]
- So I use the lesser villain, and in truth the more powerful, for he stands higher at Versailles than any here. [11]
- The resolution in the language above quoted was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. [7]
- The strength of the justification of the man who stands at the head of the movement grows with the increased size of the group. [2]
- He would gladden the heart of Frederick of Prussia, for he stands six and three if an inch. [9]
- The water in the gutters used to be stagnant and slimy, and a potent disease-breeder; but the gutters are flushed now, two or three times a day, by powerful machinery; in many of the gutters the water never stands still, but has a steady current. [5]
- Now with birds the evidence stands thus: they have acute powers of observation, and they seem to have some taste for the beautiful both in colour and sound. [1]
- The Common and the College green, near which the old house stands, are on one of the sandy patches. [6]
- It stands twice the chance of the other of dying in hospital, in jail, in debt, in bad repute. [6]
- The narration of the captivity is consistent as it stands, and wholly inconsistent with the Pocahontas episode. [4]
- Mr. Ruskin is the bull that stands upon the track and threatens with annihilation the on-coming locomotive; and I think that any spectator who sees his menacing attitude and hears his roaring cannot but have fears for the locomotive. [4]
- It stands in the bottom of the gorge, in a place which has been hollowed out of the rock to protect it from the torrent and the storms. [5]
- The stern of the boat is decked over and the gondolier stands there. [5]
- I see below the archway where it issues from the underground recesses of our establishment; and there stands a bust, in serious expectation that some one will walk out and saunter down among the rocks; but no one ever does. [4]
- In one of the Academy salons (in the suite where these pictures are), a fine bust of Landseer stands on a pedestal in the centre of the room. [5]
- Stand with anybody that stands right. [7]
- As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel,-- As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel,-- As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
- As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel, As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel, As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
- He did write that one--a fact which stands undisputed; he wrote the whole of it; he wrote the whole of it out of his own head. [5]
- It is believed that it stands upon the site of what must have been, ages ago, a city of considerable architectural pretensions, judging by the fine porphyry pillars that are scattered through Tiberias and down the lake shore southward. [5]
- I could see that he did forgive me with all his heart, and this Petrus stands in the midst of life, and is busy early and late with mere worldly affairs. [10]
- And we know that America stands ready to welcome all other oppressed peoples and offer her abundance to all that come, without asking what their nationality is, or their creed or color. [5]
- It is impossible that a workingman who stands upon a metropolitan street corner and observes this Bacchanalian revel and prodigality of expense, should not be embittered by a sense of the inequality of the conditions of life. [4]
- Opposite to the tent stands were erected for the Council, the patrician families, and the other ladies and gentlemen whom the city had invited to the festival. [10]
- Then, perhaps the temporary expatriation, the tedious traversing of seas and continents, the pilgrimage to Bayreuth stands explained. [5]
- Let me first tell you of the woman who has a loving heart, and yet knows something else that stands higher than love. [10]
- The mimic sea, surrounded by wooden stands filled with common people eating peanuts and popcorn, was none other than Madame Clement's pond, which Honora remembered as a spot of enchantment. [9]
- There are two such Whigs on this floor (Colonel Haskell and Major James) The former fought as a colonel by the side of Colonel Baker at Cerro Gordo, and stands side by side with me in the vote that you seem dissatisfied with. [7]
- Opposite stands another successful imitation of the Grecian style of architecture,--a building with a Corinthian porch, also of white marble. [4]
- Upon the principal street or road of Baddeck stands the dreadful prison-house. [4]
- It is a strange attitude; for at bottom we know that the throne which the people support stands, and that when that support is removed nothing in this world can save it. [5]
- Mr. Stewart's house stood, and stands to-day, amid trim gardens, in plain sight of the Severn. [9]
- But there is still another sort of intellect which is very apt to jump over the thought that stands next and come down in the unexpected way of the knight. [6]
- One of these statues stands in Alba. [10]
- There stands the statue of the divine Caesar. [10]
- As it now stands, we must appeal to the sober sense and patriotism of the people. [7]
- As the case stands, the loud voice of the stag during the breeding-season does not seem to be of any special service to him, either during his courtship or battles, or in any other way. [1]
- But as it stands, I propose to do up Nevada and Cal., beginning with the trip across the country in the stage. [5]
- An editor who stands with hat in hand has the respect accorded to any other beggar. [4]
- Then the accused stands up and testifies that he may have done it, but he was receiving and handling a good deal of money at the time and he doesn't remember this particular circumstance--at least with sufficient distinctness to enable him to grasp it tangibly. [5]
- By his side stands the Chancellor, holding the seals, and next to him are other officers of state. [5]
- The smaller man stands swinging his arms for warmth; the smack of the leather in the clear air like the report of a gun. [11]
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