Sentence examples for standard does from inspiring English sources

A mileage standard does not.

Standard does seem like an odd word to describe such a plant until you realize that the "stand" in "standard" does indeed mean just that.

Jonathan Weber, editor in chief of The Industry Standard, does not dispute the circulation figures.

"The standard does allow a little wiggle room for exceptional cases," she said.

Courts have said that that standard does not require much in the way of coherence.

Nothing needs to approach perfection anymore and an acceptable standard does not disappoint.

— Jeff Gordinier The London Evening Standard: Does deriding ultra-cheap wine as bad constitute elitism?

"But it seems when it comes to the campaign finance law that he helped write, this standard does not apply".

Holding our opponents (let alone our friends and allies) to an impossible standard does nobody any favours.

"The existence of a minimum standard does not require N.H.T.S.A. to ignore deadly problems," the agency said.

To this day, however, varieties exist, especially among nonwhite groups, that display many more creolelike features than the standard does.