Sentence examples for As a stand by from inspiring English sources

I'm not going to be rushing to read the full Maigret series (partly because there are loads) but it's always nice to discover another author with a large body of work you can keep as a stand by.

Director Jordan viewedoberts viewed his ethereal, image-heavy tale "The Kings of Summer" as a "Stand by Me" for the video game generation, while Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the writer-director pair behind the new indie "The Way, Way Back," found their fish-out-of-water tale tonally aligned with Crowe and Hughes with touches of Ivan Reitman's "Meatballs" thrown in for good measure.

Q: Can I come as a stand-by on the day of the conference?

The girls each perform twice a week, attending two further performances as a stand-by, and are firm friends, having sleepovers at each other's houses on nights off.

Tremlett, who has been with the squad throughout as a stand-by player, was the obvious man to come in for Broad as a like-for-like replacement.

Steve Borthwick has had 'no contact' with the Lions since the squad's unveiling last week and is unlikely to feature even as a stand-by.

She's this incredible girl, and her parents think she's just evil". The girls each perform twice a week, attending two further performances as a stand-by, and are firm friends, having sleepovers at each other's houses on nights off.

The Sandwiths insist the note was only signed as a "stand-by" in case their first estimated payment turned out to be too low, instead of too high.

It was then only used as a stand-by station, operating only at peak electrical demand times.

The physiological state from which the mRNA for library construction was obtained can be described as a stand-by position where the cell waits for environmental input.

In some cases, the chipper is used as a stand-by piece of equipment operated only when a truck is available.