Sentence examples for stand at the gate from inspiring English sources
Three soldiers with automatic weapons stand at the gate.
Ma Ellen's personal guards, female Indian peacekeepers, stand at the gate like statues.
Even the resolutely goofy trickster Kenneth Koch offers morals: "We living stand at the gate / And life goes on".
The door won't open for you, and there isn't anything to do except stand at the gate and look.
A few miles away, a new airport accommodates small-plane flights bringing foreigners and San Juaneros who drop in on Vieques to stand at the gate of its most famous site: the Navy's military training field, Camp García.
LibertarianLou Unfortunately, a significant proportion of the parents who would consider themselves dissatisfied with the school where I work are the ones who never set foot inside the door, never turn up at parents' evenings, don't read with their children, don't ensure that homework is done, do not support school behaviour policies – but stand at the gate complaining to each other.
"We stand at the gates of salvation," said the Almería manager Francisco Rodríguez after they defeated Granada.
"The poor of the world stand at the gates of the comfortable mansions occupied by each and every king and queen, president, prime minister and minister privileged to attend this unique meeting," Mr. Mbeki said.
"There was a governor who constantly sought to derail meetings, reducing other members of the governing body to tears; a community member, not a parent, who would stand at the gates handing out leaflets saying what a crap school Anderton Park was," and days when female Muslim members of staff were confronted outside by someone saying "where is your headscarf, sister?".
When it's time for me to leave this planet and I stand at the gates of heaven, and they're like, 'Well, what do you have to give us, Darren, why should we let you through here?' I'll be like, 'I tried to write something, and here it is.'" His face, mostly impassive, crumples into a wry feminine grin before folding back again.
There is a legend Joshua Trees stand at the gates of heaven and hell.
