Sentence examples for stood for two hours from inspiring English sources

They stood for two hours while Mr. Brenner took pictures, Mr. Sun said.

Mr. Kotik stood for two hours and made clockwise motions with his arms, one rotation every 5 to 10 minutes; these were signals for the orchestra, divided into 86 parts, to move from one "aggregate" of notations to the next.

Ten thousand Keltz workers with red flags marched in the funeral march, and stood for two hours next to the long common grave". Describes the sharp speeches by government officials condemning the pogroms, and the patience of the townsfolk during the Yiddish eulogy, but also wonders how many were there to avoid punishment.

It was developed for a 1998 exhibition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where, the site says, visitors stood for two hours to watch what can now be seen online: a vivid unraveling of how Escher fooled the eye by compressing multiple viewpoints into one.

People regularly fell out of windows during questioning or had heart attacks in police custody … The top judges of the country stood for two hours in silence in the street outside the Judges' Club with their sashes and ribbons and medals on their chests.

Like most of the record numbers of marchers, I stood for two hours, and walked for two more.

The other day, she'd stood for sixteen hours straight, working a double shift.

Then we stood for six hours in the cold and sleet".

The next day, the couple stood for seven hours accepting congratulations.

They sat at a round table while Gang stood, for three hours, presenting preliminary ideas and parrying questions.

There were no seats left, so she stole a chair from a cubicle for her mother while she herself stood for seven hours.