Sentence examples for which I stood from inspiring English sources

Suddenly, the road on which I stood, breathless from the shimmer, was filled with a tempest of wings.

The ground on which I stood was marshland in the summer; on a normal winter day it would be a field of powder.

The lilac bushes in full bloom, before which I stood, net in hand, displayed clusters of a fluffy gray in the dusk — the ghost of purple.

"I participated in a demonstration last April at my college, and it was an anti-American flag demonstration in which I stood on a flag," he said.

When I first set foot on Baghdad soil, I remembered being 8 years old, watching CNN as the antiaircraft fire rose from the very city in which I stood.

Thirty-seven years later, in the ruins of Ta Prohm temple, was real life recreating the tantalizing sensations of that long-ago man-made environment -- which, of course, recreated the "original" in which I stood.

Central to Mr. Santorum's spiritual life is his wife, whom he calls "the rock which I stand upon".

(I'd probably ask the camera to stop rolling for the next bit, in which I stand very close to various men in some of these stores and attempt to gauge their age and emotional disposition via observation).

Mr. Santorum, who came on stage with most of his large family, including his wife Karen, "the rock on which I stand upon," couched much of his speech in the language of Reagan-style trickle-down economics (at one point suggesting that cutting taxes for the very rich would help the very poor).

This is an exercise in which I stand on one leg, raise my other so my thigh is parallel with the ground, lean forward as if taking a step but allow my bent leg (still bent) down to ground level and my body to sink to the ground.

In "The Ground on Which I Stand," an address to a national theater conference that helped spark the contretemps, Mr. Wilson said, "To mount an all-black production of a 'Death of a Salesman' or any other play conceived for white actors as an investigation of the human condition through the specifics of white culture is to deny us our humanity, our own history".