Sentence examples for nervous standby from inspiring English sources
Kabul was already on nervous standby after a series of coordinated attacks on April 15, when three groups of armed men infiltrated the city's security cordons and unleashed rockets and gunfire for around 18 hours on areas including the Parliament and the embassy district.
They're built on familiar adventure-story standbys and played for nervous giggles, but Mignola draws them drenched in shadow, as if they're dredged up from primal anxieties, and wrenches the plots out of joint whenever they start running too smoothly.
Expecting a flood of nervous phone calls, the mutual fund giant put 200 employees on standby to support its usual staff of 100 telephone representatives.
Christian Streich's merry men came pretty close to embarking on this flight of fantasy, too, but at the end of 90 nervous minutes, Schalke smuggled three points to make it on to Uefa's standby list.
CONTROLLER: Brickyard 3329, standby.
CONTROLLER: And everybody standby.
Standby for more shaking up.
Standby for more information.
