Sentence examples for champagne stand from inspiring English sources

— Four empty bottles of Champagne stand proudly in a row on the back shelf of Ron Washington's office in the Texas Rangers' clubhouse.

They remark on it to each other in the bars and cafeterias, where salad sales do better than the neglected champagne stand: no bubbling waters of oblivion for neo-realists.

Just about everything else in the kitchen is for sale, from a French Champagne stand large enough to hold four bottles ($75) to the Marie Antoinette doll with the removable head ($15).

On the restaurant tables, regiments of samovars stood at attention, along with nickle-silver chafing dishes, Champagne stands, candelabras and a silvery cake stand.

They'd put a new bedspread on the bed, a frieze of white flowers out of Matisse, and a chilled bottle of champagne stood on the nightstand next to a basket of chocolates.

Banners were being prepared, flags were set to be raised, and in the basement of the chief hotel, hundreds of bottles of champagne stood ready to be uncorked.A New York senator and party leader who was so confident he'd be president that he bought champagne... and who became Lincoln's secretary of state.

But now that the era has passed, and we're left to meditate upon the excess and the poignant yearning beneath it, the voices of Gloria Gaynor, Vicki Sue Robinson and Evelyn "Champagne" King stand for more than momentary ecstasy.

Revelers grabbed their Champagne flutes, stood up on the banquettes and started to dance in place.

I saw a pantomime dame whose memory seemed to have vanished in a haze of champagne, who stood centre stage as the rest of the cast tried to remember his lines for him.

Clement Attlee, frustrated by the house's institutional conservatism, memorably compared the chamber to "a glass of champagne that has stood for five days".

"It's all been a bit surreal but it just felt natural as soon as I came back here," said Smith afterwards, clutching a bottle of champagne under the Knowsley Road stand.