Sentence examples for stand about in from inspiring English sources

So, on the other hand, if you're 25 and have the time and the gumption to stand about in Brixton waving a bottle of prosecco, your time could be used more profitably by doing actual work in politics.

They fly above little country cottages like deranged Peter Scott ducks, and flock or stand about in landscapes that owe something to Paul Nash, something else to Death Valley.

Here is Confucius on the rectification of names: "If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion.

When the south wind prevails in it, the inhabitants fall sick; the north-west wind affects them with coughs; and the north wind restores them to health: but the intensity of the cold therein is so great, that no one can stand about in the streets and lanes.

Houses represent the human desire to not stand about in the rain, and it's unfair to twist this desire into a commodity.

So, if one player is serving from the right side of the court, his teammate should stand about in the middle of the service box on the left side of the same court, creating a diagonal line between the players.

On the other side, boyish Mexican soldiers stand about, weapons in hand.

But a cow simply stands about in its cowness, which makes it look like a willing meal.

In the rooms of the institute that day, costumed mannequins stood about in various stages of incompletion.

I'm not stood about in a club praying for the inevitable clang.

As they stood about in the torrential downpour, Jimmy T hit the stage for Jimmy T: Live in Concert!