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Standing in sentence

2368 examples of Standing in a sentence

A man was standing at the door, hesitant to press the bell.
It's looking the person in the eye who is standing before you, especially when you're sentencing them.
You don't recognize the issues that are standing in your way or if you do, you don't necessarily know how to fix them.
I was standing in the toilet because I couldn't even sit down, because the toilet roll had run out, there was mud everywhere, and it smelled pretty bad.
And now we're trying to work with them to be accredited, which is really important, and we went back to the last AGM this June and we had these amazing one-to-one discussions with the board members, who told us how much they loved their hankies and how it really moved them, what we were doing, and they all told us that if we were standing outside screaming at them and not being gentle in our protest, they wouldn't have even listened to us, never mind had those discussions with us.
The mayfly is the last creature standing.
I saw an old man standing at his gate, knee-deep in water, refusing to move.
But it is essential for us to be a leader in this sphere, of course to restore our standing and our leadership in the world.
But I saw the lack of a way to fix point mutations, which cause most human genetic diseases, as a major problem standing in the way.
To give you an idea of the size, you know, of that parachute relative to the people standing there.
One of those challenges lies just blocks from where I'm standing right now, in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
And from where you're standing at 6,000 feet in the valley, it's an easy hike up to the mature pinyon and juniper forest through that knoll at the front at 7,600 feet.
Everything I couldn't say at those parties, standing there holding my glass of wine, exploded in shapes and colors on paper.
Whereas at about the age six, we were told to stop learning that way, and that all learning from then on would happen through teaching, whether it's people standing up, like I'm doing now, or a book, or something.
People clap, sometimes you even get standing ovations, and I say, "What the hell's wrong with you?
We were standing on the edge of thousands of acres of cotton.
And I think I learned a lot about what happiness was by going through such unbelievable grief, just standing on the edge of that abyss and just wanting to jump in.
Michael and I were standing way at the side of the kitchen.
And he wasn't my candidate of choice, but it didn't matter, because the entire class erupted into applause, a standing ovation for our brave friend Jamal who finally showed up as his most confident self for the first time that year.
It's hard to get them to envision themselves as a scientist, which involves standing up in front of people like we're doing here at this symposium and presenting something as a knowledgeable person, and then seeing yourself in the role as a scientist and giving yourself the tools to pursue that.
The statues, known as moai, were transported standing, pivoting from side to side.
So what I've been doing is challenging myself with putting on a series of performances of the ancient but pretty straightforward task of just moving and standing big heavy objects, like this 16-foot-tall megalith designed to walk across land and stand vertically; or this 4,000-pound behemoth that springs itself to life to dance onstage.
As in, of course the heart of a blue whale is as large as a house with chambers tall enough to fit a person standing.
And what we found was that highly attractive trait that was there disappeared after they had cleared the infection, so it wasn't just that the people were more attractive, it was that the parasite was manipulating its host in some way to make it more attractive to mosquitoes, standing out like a beacon to attract more mosquitoes so that it could continue its life cycle.
Even when you're standing in front of a megaphone, it's pretty much every direction.
This is Lena standing on Jake's grave.
These warriors would duel across ships; boarding them, fighting, drowning, and incapacitating their foes until only one faction was left standing.
So when I stand in these legs, my hamstring and my glutes are contracted, as they would be had I had feet and were standing on the ball of my feet.
So, if looks could kill, I would not be standing here right now.
We were just standing around trying to figure out how we are going to do this.
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