Sentence examples for which stood about from inspiring English sources

He soon came face to face with the bear, which stood about 5 feet tall, and shot him.

I learned early on that during the war the garage, which stood about 30 yards from our house, had served as a "dead house," a place where the bodies of Union soldiers were stored before burial.

The pole, which stood about 480 feet from where the bus hit the guardrail, sliced through the upper half of the bus, leaving a tangle of bodies, metal and shattered glass.

The investigators determined that debris from the falling twin towers damaged structural columns and ignited fires on at least 10 floors at 7 World Trade Center, which stood about 400 feet north of the twin towers.

"Only a small chunk of the pyramid, which stood about 65 feet tall and was the center of a settlement of about 40,000 people in 250 B.C., remains after backhoes and bulldozers began removing the limestone slabs with which it was built," as CNN put it.

For example, two of the largest fossil penguins known Icadyptes, which stood some 1.5 metres (about 5 feet) tall, and Anthropornis, which stood about 1.8 metres (6 feet) tall date to the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago).

Atop the tower, which stands about 30 inches high, is a dock for an iPod or iPhone.

The laptop sits in an aluminum cradle, which stands about 2 feet high and moves on small wheels.

Mr. Ciaramitaro said he preferred his hometown's tree, which stands about 35 feet, illuminating a plaza in the fishing city's downtown.

But the atmosphere of good will was clouded slightly by the fact that the synagogue's opening came a few weeks after that of a large disco, which stands about a mile closer to the camp.

In the late 19th century, shipwrecks caused by jagged offshore rocks propelled the construction of the Point Montara Lighthouse, which stands about a half mile south of the beach and is still operated by the Coast Guard.