Sentence examples for standing by itself from inspiring English sources

"But this city, standing by itself, can't bridge the out-year gaps.

Standing by itself, such a poem may be called a distich.

So the pilot decides to keep moving, and soon spots another tank, standing by itself in a field.

Syria's Foreign Ministry, once in a modest villa in a residential neighborhood, is now a cavernous white cake of a building standing by itself.

Standing by itself is the Complaynte of Scotland (1548 49), which is both an exposition of Scottish patriotism and an experiment in the various usages of Scots prose.

Left standing by itself is the United States, wondering how to cope with its diminished status in a region that it has dominated for almost 60 years.

The kids were standing by the playhouse — which itself was falling to decrepitude, dark-gray smears of mildew growing on its fake logs — pretending to be a mom and a dad themselves, although they were a bit too old and self-conscious for playacting.

Today, "people power" is shaking the "pillars" of the American position in the Middle East, while -- despite the staggering levels of military might the Pentagon still has embedded in the area -- the Obama administration has found itself standing by helplessly in grim confusion.

Joseph standing by her.

We're not standing by".

"My factories are standing by".