Sentence examples for marines stood in from inspiring English sources

A platoon of American Marines stood in perfect formation, watching the scene unfold.

Mathew Armemdarie of the Marines stood in yesterday for President Bush in an inauguration rehearsal.

Officials and military officers gave speeches while platoons of marines stood at attention in the scorching sun.

These two marines stood their ground.

American marines stand guard in several watchtowers; on the Cuban side, few of the towers are manned, there having been no incident for many years now.

Crowds hurled their shoes at the giant statue of Mr. Hussein that stood in Baghdad's Firdos Square before helping American marines pull it down on April 9, 2003, the day the capital fell.

Doc stood in the corner, his arm looped over a marine.

The quick resolution stood in contrast to the 2007 seizure by Iran of 15 British sailors and marines who were searching for a merchant ship in the Gulf.

"My mother had been an ambulance driver and a revolutionary and the kind of woman who stood in front of picket lines," she says, reflecting on her own career studying marine fossils.

Like most species of Eutreptia and Eutreptiella, R. viridis lives in marine environments, which stands in contrast to the freshwater lifestyles of the vast majority of species within the Euglenales (e.g., Euglena, Phacus, Lepocinclis and Trachelomonas).

Marine has bigger goals in mind.