Sentence examples for nearly stand from inspiring English sources

The "Georgia O'Keeffe" plate, which has the green-and-purple coloring of an artichoke, rises so far off the table as to nearly stand on its own.

You needed really strong triceps to work the ridiculously heavy steering, the deftness of a surgeon to slot home the spindly column shifter into each gear (shifting from second to third gear was an art form) and immense strength to make the car stop - you had to nearly stand on the brakes.

And though it is very much the beginning of something, were there no subsequent episodes to come, this could nearly stand alone as a short film.

Some mosquitoes nearly stand on their heads when they bite, but when Culex landed on Morris, it assumed a more parallel posture, pushing its long proboscis into her skin.

The Olympic movement has always had an aspect of innocence to it that has brought diverse countries, and people, together to take part in a two-week spectacle that sometimes seems to make the world nearly stand still.

I once nearly stood on Al Pacino in a car park.

The woman who nearly stood for the leadership in 2004, but instead chose to serve as deputy leader for a decade to Alex Salmond.

She was the third woman called onto the piste, and as she took her place in the line she nearly stood on Tan, forcing her to move.

The first time I met Lenny Dykstra, the former Mets and Phillies star, he nearly stood me up for lunch at the St . Regis Hotel in New York.

The original comic series was basically a series of 'things that Superman wanted to do before he died', and many of the issues were nearly stand-alone.

On nearly every stand, young women in eight-inch heels pose and pout beside the cars.