Sentence examples for stand the light from inspiring English sources

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I couldn't stand the light".

It won't last". "It won't stand the light of day," Danforth says in one of several conversations.

Two days later, during an evaluation in Guskiewicz's clinic, he had to have a towel put over his head because he couldn't stand the light.

As Joseph McNamara, former police chief of Kansas City and San Jose put it: "The drug war cannot stand the light of day.

"If you thought that this thing would be reviewed by a new board and it might not be approved, there is some implication that, 'Gee, this thing couldn't stand the light of day,"' Mr. Reed said in an interview with The New York Times that was cited in the counterclaim.

"In other words, if you thought that if this thing would be reviewed by a new board, and it might not be approved, there is some implication that, 'Gee, this thing couldn't stand the light of day".' In defending his decision to ask for the money, Mr. Grasso has said that he was doing so for estate planning.

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"He was holding his temples and he could barely stand the lights.

Walking along the beach at night, the deserted lifeguard stands, the lights of Long Island.

They stood, the lights came on, and the boos turned to cheers and applause for the performers in the show, which would go on to close after 21 performances, one of the biggest flops in Broadway history.

Perhaps your boss is always looking over your shoulder, the dated technology gives you anxiety or you can't stand the florescent lights.

Being a lighting designer, I cannot stand the color temperature and light patterns of CFLs.

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