Sentence examples for to stand for something else from inspiring English sources
"We decided we were going to stand for something else in housewares — we were going to become the brand for millennials".
"Maybe in Park Slope, they need to stand for something else," JR said, "that's why the project is a mirror of society".
Today, what remains of the aqueducts has come to stand for something else: the challenges Italy faces in preserving its past while extensive cutbacks in public funding are eroding the maintenance of Italy's cultural heritage and parks.
The underlying presupposition of allegory is that things can come to stand for something else.
The people and the buildings didn't live up to the feeling and seemed to stand for something else altogether.
Scale models seem to be a special case of a broader category of representations that Peirce dubbed icons: representations that stand for something else because they closely resemble it (Peirce 1931 1958 Vol. 3, Para. 362).
Our watches stand for something else.
Now G.M. may stand for something else: Government Motors.
Knowing that a block (or letters) can stand for something else is a preliteracy skill.
On the contrary, "she believed that something could stand for something else, a rose for love, an ocean for life, a cross for death".
Art, as Sontag persuasively argued, doesn't stand for something else but is itself a thing, and while Mr. Dorsky's films can inspire explanatory reveries, they are also beautiful objects.
