Sentence examples for fly stand from inspiring English sources

We reasoned that the dead-drift approach worked because it was the only way to make a fly stand out among the millions of rapidly-swimming sand eels.

Renuka Chowdhury, a member of Parliament who arrived at the main gate just as the bullets started flying, stood on the lawn outside the walls of the Parliament compound and gave interviews on camera.

In the event of a cancellation, ask explicitly if you can fly stand-by to Elmira, Syracuse or Binghamton -- all are within an hour of Ithaca.

Wigan are making plans to fly stand-off Tim Smith back from Australia, where is currently on compassionate leave, but are unsure whether he will arrive in time to play at the JJB Stadium on Friday.

Be willing to fly stand-by.

Franklin recommends that the kite flyer stand "under some cover, so that the silk riband may not be wet".

Watch as Mitchell drops into the massive wave, barely dodges the flying stand up paddle board from a surfer who wipes out next to him, and somehow emerges from the violent whitewash untouched.

The fly stands before the vast mouths of two glass tubes.

Zuckerkandl E., "Can flies stand in for humans?," J Mol Evol (1993), 37(1):1-4.

It was Whitehouse's contention that the BBC should be encouraging mucky little boys to do up their flies, stand up straight and join others in building a Britain staunchly resistant to the dismal depredations of cynical smut.

Using brightly colored paper can make your flyer stand out, but sometimes it'll make your image and text less noticeable.