Sentence examples for standby the from inspiring English sources

Which leaves the eternal standby: the Washington Warriors.

That familiar standby, the situp, is gone, or almost gone.

"We were on standby the whole day," he said.

But in the end, they relied on that old, homespun (and cheap) standby: the watch party.

Even that old standby, the smoky eye, is out of vogue.

Elsewhere, terms like "magic" and that good old landscape-painting standby, "the sublime," surface.

Now Rice has turned her attention to that other pop-Gothic standby, the werewolf.

In Broadway parlance, Ms. Quackenbush is a standby, the most elite type of understudy.

But aside from that analogue standby, the phone, videoconferencing is their favorite means of communication.

The first was a fairly ancient English comic standby: the eccentric, and the concept of eccentricity.

Another standby, the steak tartare, was faultlessly familiar, and the "small" portion would more than fill a lowball glass.