Sentence examples for but standby from inspiring English sources

(Matinees in December are sold out, but standby tickets may be available).

Sold out, but standby tickets are available an hour before the concert.

I'm not talking about active use battery life – I got a full day of work without plugging in the TabPro S – but standby time.

At 8 p.m., Paul Hall, Juilliard School, 155 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, Manhattan, (212) 769-7406, carnegiehall.org; sold out, but standby tickets will be available an hour before the concert.

Apple claims that the iPhone 5S gets equal or better battery life than the iPhone 5 and earlier generations for everything but standby time (where the iPhone 4 claimed up to 300 hours' standby time - 12 and a half days - against 250 hours, or 10.4 days, for the new models).

The battery life is slightly longer *8 hours talk time versus 7 hours for the iPhone 4), but standby time is much less (200 hours versus 300).

Specialties include steak tartare with spinach or fresh pasta, but standbys like preserved duck and basil-cream ravioli are also worth the trek to this easygoing bistro near Porte Maillot.

At 8 p.m., Peter Jay Sharp Theater, the Juilliard School, 155 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212 769-7406; free tickets have been distributed, but a standby line for seating begins at 7 30.

In its statement Southwest said that Mr. Smith, right, originally bought two seats for a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Burbank — "as he's been known to do when traveling on Southwest" — but went standby on an earlier flight, where only a single seat was available.

I noticed that battery life during the day was quite good - on par with some of the more power efficient smartphones - but that standby time overnight was poor, losing between 12 and 16% of charge while left on silent on a bedside table for seven hours.

At present, the only way to bring a laptop to life quickly is to summon it not from a cold state, nor from deep hibernation (suspend-to-disk), but from standby mode (suspend-to-RAM), in which the last session is stored in memory.