Sentence examples for served standing from inspiring English sources

Skirt steak had been marinated, rolled into a spiral and served standing on end with a topknot of crispy onion rings.

Also small, delicious and priced at $8.95 was the lobster strudel: two phyllo cylinders filled with lobster, shiitake mushrooms and grilled asparagus, cut on an angle and served standing on end.

Due to the recent speculative frenzy surrounding the sector, you might be best served standing aside for the short term, depending on your time-frame and tolerance for risk.

Bartoli capitalised by threatening the German's second serve, standing inside the baseline to receive.

Dimitrov then closed toward the middle of the court for Fish's second serve, standing practically on top of the center service line in encroachment.

Until last week, the prevailing sentiment was that the ACC was best served by standing pat at 12 members — Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

Now when he worked he served food, standing by the overhanging glass in a building that had been frantically evacuated several times, too.

Amid a global meltdown, perhaps Tories would forget their bluster and agree that British interests would not be served by standing aloof and watching Spain's reduction to economic rubble.

Murray was later at a loss to explain how he returned one 147mph serve while standing on the baseline.

Jesse Levine, a 5-9 Canadian-born pro, likened the service games of Isner and Karlovic to him taking "one of these chairs and serving" while standing on it.

These were long chambers having vaulted ceilings, with serving boys standing at semiattention and the proprietor sitting at a raised platform at one end.