Sentence examples for standby since from inspiring English sources

It's been on standby since I got it for Christmas.

She says the military has not been on standby since April.

They had been on standby since the morning because of calls for a protest march that day.

Cuckoldry has been a comic standby since Aristophanes; in the person of Smiley, I would suggest, the joke, at last, ran out.

This shot has been a cinematic standby since that great innovator Fritz Lang used it in the startling opening of Man Hunt 69 years ago, when a hunter catches Hitler in his sights at Berchtesgaden.

United Nations police officers have had three riot teams on standby since Friday as protests have flared in the Serbian enclaves across Kosovo and blocked the main road south from the capital, Pristina, for days.

But the device has been on indefinite standby since January 1997, when workers discovered that radioactive tritium gas had leaked from the reactor into nearby groundwater.

I used to have my TV on standby, but since week one of this experiment I've been switching it off when I finish watching it at night.

Deborah Auton "I used to have my TV on standby, but since week one of the experiment I've been switching it off when I finish watching it at night.

As Passover begins next Wednesday evening, our family's choice will be the old standby distributed since 1934 by Maxwell House coffee (40 million copies in print), augmented by direct readings from Exodus.

The reactor, known as the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), has been maintained in standby mode since being shuttered in 1992.