Sentence examples for set up stands from inspiring English sources
Ice-cream venders set up stands to serve the crowd.
Typically, villagers set up stands outside their gates, selling vegetables, lilacs and peonies.
And street hawkers set up stands just outside "Fort Godwin," sleeping under the Godwins' bougainvillea hedge, which one day caught fire, leaving a gaping hole in the fence.
Vendors, many of them indigenous Totonacs and Nahuas in white homespun garments, are beginning to set up stands for the vibrant Sunday market.
In the 1990s, small merchants moved into the cavernous spaces built as showcases for shipbuilding or electrification and set up stands selling homeopathic honey, and sugar-frosted deep-fried doughnuts, and televisions, and gem-encrusted silver jewelry from the Caucasus.
Next to their homes, Uighurs set up stands displaying more varieties of raisins than I'd ever seen -- 20, 30 different types, in browns and blacks and greens and yellows, so sweet they were like candy.
They set up stand-alone clinics to care for women in their moments of crisis.
Instead of grabbing territory and reparations, the victors set up stand-by facilities and know-how funds.
Some rallies seemed as much like street fairs as angry acts of resistance, with booksellers setting up stands and supporters of the presidential candidate Ralph Nader carrying banners.
Trying to resolve one of Mexico City's oldest and most intractable problems, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard sent more than 1,000 police officers in riot gear into the historic center to keep street vendors from setting up stands and blocking sidewalks.
