Sentence examples for stood playing from inspiring English sources

On a barren stretch of Long Island City, Queens, with few spectators and a view no more glorious than faded warehouses, Stanley Rygor stood playing his button accordion, as he has for the past 12 years.

So he stood playing "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" on his pipes until the advancing Germans knocked him out with a grenade blast.

"I can't stand playing a nine-inning game in four hours.

No so long ago, a Leicestershire win was as rare as a quiet word from Danny Morrison, but they currently stand "played one, won one" after crushing Glamorgan.

A year ago, she could not stand, play with other children, eat solids or talk.

Minichiello sits in the stands playing Monopoly on his iPad, Ennis signs yet more autographs and nibbles on some dried mango.

He also co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2013's The Last Stand, playing an FBI agent chasing an escaped drug cartel leader.

(The goal would have stood. Playing on without shoes or shin pads after losing either accidentally is allowed under the latest version of the Laws of the Game).

The guitarist Emmett Kelly and the violinist Cheyenne Mize stood out, playing with light precision and singing background vocals.

A bagpiper stood outside playing "Scotland the Brave" and other aorta-opening tunes of glory.

The Kazakh-stand plays Pulp Fiction on a trumpet.