Sentence examples for stands sort of from inspiring English sources

Technically, its title as tallest building on earth still stands, sort of.

Gatherings of the Blohards — it stands (sort of) for the Benevolent and Loyal Order of Honorable Ancient Red Sox Die Hard Sufferers of New York — are always filled with humor, but Friday's session was heavy on the gallows type, befitting a choke impressive even by the team's Heimlich-worthy history.

Born after "a one-night stand sort of thing" between his parents, he recounts the first meeting with his father, Apollo.

Alex was always the lemonade stand sort of kid, ever looking for a way to do work.

(See: "Fed Stands Firm, Sort Of").

In one room of Mr. Rhoades's latest essay in sculptural extravagance stands a sort of giant Tinkertoy sawmill -- Sutter's Mill, birthplace of the California gold rush -- made of polished aluminum pipes and clamps.

In every little crook of you stands some sort of adequacy that the world would do anything to keep you unconvinced of.

As it stands, any sort of long-term exposure could very well take astronauts past the current safe limits for exposure, which puts NASA in something of a bind.

Behind the dancers stood a sort of silver house, twenty-two feetallll, which looked as though someone had glued a bunch of poles together while drunk.

I will not soon forget the giddy sense of empowerment that every user of "Interactions" projected while I stood by, sort of nervous.

Three black men were accused of the crime, though they did not stand any sort of fair trial: all three were dead within a day.