Sentence examples for standby ready from inspiring English sources

Wyn was suffering from a severe throat infection, with a standby ready to sing from the wings.

United Nations officials also say an environmental team is on emergency standby ready to go to China if the government approves, to assess possible dangers there.

Where defibrillators differ is that they are only a powerful standby — ready to intervene if necessary, but unlikely ever to be called into service.

North Korea's boy king, Kim Jong-un, who seems totally off the grid, has ordered his strategic rocket forces to be on standby, ready to hit U.S. and South Korean targets at a moment's notice.

A ruling elite so unsettled by the uprising that it had a plane on standby ready to fly the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, to Syria at a moment's notice.

I spent the flight home in stunned silence, as I listened to Dad explain how the British embassy in Istanbul and local police had been on standby, ready to step in if things had turned nasty.

In cloudy conditions, the collector field is maintained in a standby mode ready for full-scale operation when the intensity of the sunlight rises again.

But the 30-year-old is also aware Hodgson has standby players ready, so covets a return to the ranks only after Euro 2012.

They had still not agreed terms on the day of the press conference announcing the line-up so another judge was on standby and ready to be unveiled when the original judge finally signed up at the 11th hour.

We know it will end in tears, but we can stay calm nonetheless, safe in the knowledge that Colonel Brandon Billl, in Trollope's version) is on standby throughout, ready for Marianne to suffer her teenage histrionics and grow up a little.

So consider paying an extra $3,000 a day, if you are nearing death's door, to have a standby team ready to whisk you away.