Sentence examples for they stood was from inspiring English sources

Where they stood was directly in the line of fire for anyone choosing to start shooting again from Abu Sneina.

The restaurant's notorious snobbery, its talent for letting unimportant guests know exactly where on the social ladder they stood, was nowhere in evidence.

That he was in possession of the buildings and the ground where they stood was made certain, but that he had any actual possession beyond that was reasonably debatable under the evidence.

How the stylobate on which they stood was curved, so the colonnade could theoretically meet in parabolic grandeur some miles into space.

Lawsuits over those monuments were settled when the land on which they stood was acquired by private parties.

The stadium and ballpark were torn down after the 15-acre parcel on which they stood was acquired by CBS in 1950.

At the time, the buildings were haggard, having surrendered long before to drug dealers and decay, and the neighborhoods where they stood were often sketchy.

The desert plateau on which they stand was once isolated.

But Israel's terms as they stand are unacceptable.

The buildings and land on which they stand are owned by the "freeholder".

My confidence in the parties as they stand is not as clear-cut as it was so I'm rethinking.