Sentence examples for kind of stand off from inspiring English sources

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He just kind of stood off to the side when I was talking to her".

So instead we choose a kind of "stand-off" policy of killings from afar.

"I don't not-speak to Morrissey, because that implies a certain kind of stand-off," he said.

"It has certainly had an impact but there is a focal point now, a physical location where a large number of people are and a kind of stand-off and that takes things up another notch.

And not just the kind of stand-off peace of former enemies who've called a truce.

These kinds of stand-off in moral philosophy are unfortunate, but should not be brushed aside.

It starts off really low and then I kind of stand up for myself and say, 'No!'".

I kind of stand behind this movement.

Five years ago, a survey of tax collection in the U.S. would have shown a kind of technological stand-off, in which the technological weapons of the IRS, and all of its counterparts at the state, county and city levels were effectively holding at bay those used by H&R Block, accountants and the occasional criminal.

We had reached a kind of agreeable stand-off.