Sentence examples for just about stand from inspiring English sources

You could just about stand a spoon in it.

"I can just about stand learning the filthy lingo it's written in," Philip Larkin, another Tolkien student, complained about the old man's lectures on "Beowulf".

Probably the only thing you'd really regret is leaving people out: you can just about stand anybody if it's only for a few hours or even days.

("I can just about stand learning the filthy lingo it's written in," Larkin had written to Amis when they were undergrads studying Old English. "What gets me down is being expected to admire the bloody stuff").

It's almost true of the mysterious symbol emblazoned on the island's flag, a creature made of three armoured legs with golden spurs, conjoined at the thighs, which looks like it might just about stand up which ever way you hurled it.

You can just about stand on your head in the middle of the street and it wont do anything". Laura Rhodd is one of the owners of Hausner's, a company based in Oklahoma that makes storm shelters and has been in her family since 1954.

I think the boast, or admission, just about stands up: the main restaurant has a stonking 700 covers, and the bar downstairs, where you can get the same food, does another 300.

Heather O'Halleran, 16, of Flushing, has been so persistent with her that Monica is just about ready to stand with the use of a cane, and doctors hope that she will walk one day without any help.

Can later dragged a low shot wide, Clyne headed off target and Firmino's effort was repelled by Forster as Southampton just about stood firm.

In an extraordinary piece in the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens wrote that "the United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world" but, with the election of the liberal Obama, "the U.S., like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World.

On my way to meet Nancy (she has just about acquired a stand-alone Christian name in the manner of Colleen and Chantelle), I attempt to bring to mind the partner of any other England football manager.