Sentence examples for as stand up from inspiring English sources

The reader does not rise from his table happy and replete so much as stand up suddenly, pale and reeling.

His trick of crafting his choruses around catchphrases such as "Stand up!", "Get back!" and "Move, bitch!" creates ready-made crowd participation and ensures all hands are in the air.

An initiative called the Zusha Project, funded by Georgetown University, recently randomly assigned stickers to the passenger cabs of 2,500 matatus around Kenya, with mottos such as "stand up and speak up" against bad driving.

"Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't.

Johnson made headlines earlier in the week after posting to his social media accounts complaining about some of his male co-stars on "Fast 8," remarking, "Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't".

In August, he posted a candid Instagram from the set of "Fast 8" calling out his male costars for being "candy asses". "Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't," he wrote in the post.

So as you can see, The Pirate Bay isn't necessarily as stand-up-for-the-little-guy as the site's cutesy "your American copyright laws don't apply in Sweden, lol" letters may suggest.

The rest is comedy hysteria as the duo picked up the most fanatical following since the heyday of Reeves and Mortimer, their most obvious surrealism-as-stand-up forebears.

Death as stand-up comedy shtick?

It's incredible, storytelling as much as stand-up.

He's a hoot – politician as stand-up comedian.