How to Use stand around in a Sentence

stand around

phrasal verb
  • And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 May 2024
  • The West cannot stand around and wait for the cow to die.
    — Graeme Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Players stand around the edges of the sheet and hold it in the air.
    — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 29 July 2024
  • They're made from the earth, are covered in grass and stand around 30 feet high.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But Blackmon didn't make this move just to stand around and watch.
    — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2023
  • Throughout the game, a group of teenagers stand around recording the action.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There’s too much standing around and too much time spent with one hand on his stick.
    — Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Stock your house with TVs During most parties, guests love to stand around in the kitchen and chat.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2025
  • And, of course, all the models are standing around with no clothes on backstage.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Concerts involve more than just a throng of fans standing around on the grass.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • There were two sparse groups of people standing around them.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • The average price in all three of those cities now stands around $2.80 per gallon.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The average price in all three of those cities now stands around $2.80 per gallon.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
  • Now, somehow, all four of us are standing around the kid, making space.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The air had a pre-fight crackle to it; people stood around waiting to see how the tension would break.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • Two blocks away, people stood around drinking beer at a bar.
    — Eric Tucker, Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The twin sisters stand around in the jungle, arguing over the skirmish.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • There’s a lot of standing around watching the horses work, so people can talk.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • The full consequences of this act of vandalism for the world’s poor, and for U.S. standing around the globe, will take years to become clear.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The snowy, wooded scene shows a gaggle of droids standing around a grill with what looks to be cheese curds directly on the grates.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Mind you, the soldiers shoot them with machine guns from about four feet away and the scientists just stand around as the zombies turn.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Once all the ducklings were gone, folks stood around in shock and horror as Juniper went after the mama.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
  • Too much standing around on offense, too many ill advised threes and stupid turnovers.
    — Jay King, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Enter Email Sign Up Prior to this year, summer rates for the last three years stood around 8 to 9 cents per kilowatt hour.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • The boy’s older sister, now 26, said some men who weren’t involved in the fight were standing around laughing.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Owing to the protests over the police shooting, armored guards stood around the building’s perimeter.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For several minutes, the video shows the woman talking to the deputies standing around her about the traffic stop.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 July 2023
  • Now that mortgage rates stand around 7%, no one with an ultra-low rate wants to replace it with a higher rate.
    — Nerdwallet, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The longer the House can’t function, the greater the chance that the economy gets wrecked or the United States loses standing around the world with our allies and partners.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • No Coast Kitchen has since developed a base of loyal customers that follow the food stand around town.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024

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