Sentence examples for stood around for from inspiring English sources

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"We stood around for maybe 10 or 15 minutes.

"We stood around for an hour and they just came out swinging".

About a dozen of us stood around for another quarter-hour and dispersed.

He turned on the TV and we stood around for a few moments chatting about how ugly the bedspread was.

I drove up to Chappaqua and stood around for hours in the cold and slush of Bill's driveway.

"I came and stood around for many hours, but then just when the flight would have been due to leave we were told it was cancelled," she said.

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They stand around for a while, talking.

In the world we live in, panic sets in if we stand around for 10 minutes".

A bus stops and a load of maquiladora workers climb out and stand around for a while, chatting.

He stands around for a while looking as confused as a Traore before passing it into touch.

Obviously, you stand around for a while and people come up and admire the statuette, but other than that, I didn't do anything afterwards.

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