Sentence examples for Standing from inspiring English sources
'Standing' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as an adjective to describe a person or thing that is upright, not lying down or sitting. For example: "He stood tall, with his feet planted firmly on the ground in a standing position."
verb
In the process of coming to an upright position.
The last vespasienne left standing in Paris stands on the Boulevard Arago just beneath the walls of La Santé prison.
You're magnificent, and the only reason I'm standing here is because of you.
In October, Freeman carried out a protest by standing on a Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square in London in a 28-hour standoff with police.
In March 1963 I had the misfortune to find myself standing in the dock in the Old Bailey.
He praised Britain's forces for enhancing its standing.
There is also a telephone to which only the band's ex-members have the number: if it rings and a museum-goer picks it up, they will find themselves in the disconcerting position of holding a conversation with one of Abba while standing in front of a vast floor-to ceiling photograph of Abba.
Plibersek and the opposition's health spokeswoman, Catherine King, wrote to ministers on Thursday saying Australia could not afford to keep standing by as the world confronted "the most serious health emergency of the modern era".
I think that to have Peter on board has given me the courage to be less afraid about standing up on this issue".
The charity industry is used to standing up for itself.
TASMINA AHMED-SHEIKH, 44 SNP, OCHIL AND SOUTH PERTHSHIRE Ahmed-Sheikh was a member of the Conservative party until 2000, standing for the Scottish parliament for the Tories in 1999.
It is easy to mock the idea of Cameron standing up for the toiling masses while the pockets of his Old Etonian tailcoat bulge with hedge-funded millions.
