Sentence examples for instead of standing around from inspiring English sources

Instead of standing around, Camby became more active and the Knicks' defense stiffened to keep them in the game.

That's why we're capable of making an album a year instead of standing around in a studio with the amps turned on waiting for the vibes.

A while ago I posted about how Novint, an innovative and ambitious peripheral company took their freaky-deaky Falcon controller straight to EA instead of standing around like some kind of techno-wallflower.

Larry Cohen continued to twist genre conventions in pictures such as Q (aka Q: The Winged Serpent; 1982), described by critic Chris Petit as "the kind of movie that used to be indispensable to the market: an imaginative, popular, low-budget picture that makes the most of its limited resources, and in which people get on with the job instead of standing around talking about it".

Be a part of the game, instead of standing around and watching the action.

Instead of standing around in your fanny pack, have lunch at the Miraflores Locks, the southernmost of three sets of water elevators that fill and drain as ships wend their way between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans by way of the Caribbean Sea.

"But then sometimes... he does a lot of standing around and tries to do too many fancy plays, instead of just getting the puck on the net.

After an hour or so, the police got bored of standing around and waiting for the protesters to leave, so they started trying to clear the roads instead.

"It forced our players to be more aggressive instead of just standing around". Morris led the charge in the third quarter, scoring eight of her 17 points in the frame.

No more of this standing around singing".

WHAT do you do when it's 6 30 p.m. and you have just discovered that the fancy custard you were planning to serve 12 people at dinner is still sloshing around instead of standing firm?