The word "grandstand" is a correct and usable English word.
It is often used to describe someone who makes a show of themselves in order to gain attention. It can be used in other contexts to mean a large, open area used for spectating events. For example: "The mayor always grandstands during city council meetings in an effort to make sure everyone remembers her name."
He lassoes the punk and drags him kicking and screaming into touch right in front of the main grandstand.
One Farah supporter, Ian Briggs from Market Harborough, said: "We got grandstand tickets which were £50 each because Mo was competing.
But it must not be an excuse to wallow or to grandstand.
As an illuminating study by Marley Morris has shown, anti-Europeans do little real work in the legislature, preferring to grandstand in plenary sessions – Ukip is a champion of this approach.
Visitors today find a small grandstand with rusty, broken-down fencing, chickens pecking at the weed-strewn, bumpy pitch and offices that are empty and apparently unused, with computer terminals still wrapped in plastic.
It is not clear who is to blame for allowing the Taliban to grandstand by flying their own flag and claiming the office as the embassy of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan".
According to FIFA, the centre was to comprise a pitch with a security fence, artificial lighting and a grandstand with offices and changing rooms.
That has now come to an end, and negotiations give Iran's diplomats a chance to grandstand about Israel's nuclear weapons.
Ably supported by the dogged Mr Smith, he hit three consecutive leg-side boundaries to the crowd in the grandstand.
Many New Yorkers could afford to attend baseball games, and there was no better show than Ruth's Yankees.The new stadium was a wonder: built of concrete and steel, it had the first-ever triple-deck grandstand, cathedral windows, a roof-line copper frieze and an unheard-of 16 toilets.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukWESTERN politicians like to grandstand about North Korea, calling its leaders "mad", "rogue" or "tinpot" (The Economist has been known to do this too).
