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Example sentences for "stan"

Lexicographically close words:
stampers; stamping; stampings; stamps; stampt; stance; stances; stanch; stanched; stanchest
  1. In the picture alphabets the O is some times a owl, and some times it is a ox, but if I made the picters Ide have it stan for a oggur to bore holes with.

  2. Today he had so passionately indulged in self-approval that he wondered whether he had been entirely just: "After all, Stan isn't a boy any more.

  3. Stan Graff and all those bums--" The zest of the spring morning was smothered in the stale office air.

  4. But what I can't understand is: why can't Stan Graff or Chet Laylock write a letter like that?

  5. Unpleasant duty, but--I wonder if Stan is sore?

  6. Ef it cums to de wursest me und Ned und Clarsy und Hanna is agwine to stan twixt him und dem twell de eend.

  7. I'll fite eny man dat puts a bug in my yeer, dat I will; stan back, white man; dont cum nigh me wid nun ob dem creeturs.

  8. Don't hit stan ter reson dat ef ole Marse Jon wud jine de publikins und go erbout de kentry baccards and furrards a speechifyin fur de franksized woters, dat he wud git a offis?

  9. I'm agwine to stan betwixt yu und de jedge, dats who," replied Clarissa consequentially.

  10. Yes yu is fer a fac, the negro replied with anger, pears lak yu an yer yo ole daddy is terminated tu gin de culled genmen all de tribulashun yu kin und we haint ergwine tu stan hit no longer.

  11. Yu ergwine to stan twixt me und him," interrogated old Ned contemptuously "Jes as well have ole Jube er stanin twixt me und de jedge ebery bit und grane.

  12. At last he said, "Marse George, 'spose I took out de hosses an let dem stan in de open.

  13. But he's out of all that now and to make him feel better both Stan and I promised to do as he wished.

  14. As for you and Stan -- you make your get-away.

  15. Stan yure ground, don't giv an inch the olde man will cum to hiz milk bimeby.

  16. If our grate grand mother shud meet our present mother, both ov them dressed in the fashun ov their respektif daze, tha wud go tu kalling each other old Fools, and we should stan by, and offer tu bet on it.

  17. Old Stan Kraskow stared at Lauren as if he didn't believe that anybody could talk so stupidly.

  18. It was old Stan Kraskow, who had buried his younger son in the camp cemetery.

  19. And--yes, by jove, Stan ought to be able to help you.

  20. I don’t see why Stan shouldn’t have something to say about where baseball stuff is bought.

  21. Also, doubtless, Stan is pacing the room like a caged lion.

  22. You know my chum, Stan Hassell, don’t you?

  23. Gordon, the manager, is sort of a pill, but Stan can put something over on him, I guess.

  24. Ma muthuh ud stan clos by an she ud grab in de kettle with both han's an eat whateber she got.

  25. It stan dere n' look at me fir a minit den turn an' jump ovuh dat ten rail fence an' is lost in de tall weeds.

  26. This man is Stel Felso Theu," said Tho Stan Drel.

  27. The city had been attacked twice, according to Tho Stan Drel, the Talsonian: once by a single ship which had been instantly destroyed, and once by a fleet of six ships.

  28. Ten minutes later, with but a single officer now accompanying them, Tho Stan Drel, the terrestrial scientist, and the Talsonian scientist were inspecting the power installation.

  29. It wadna stan a hoast in the Court o' Session.

  30. I had a talk with Stan about what he was going to do, but some ways he didn't strike me as having the making of a good private of industry, let alone a captain, so I started in to get him a job that would suit his talents.

  31. Well, about the time Stan was through, the undertaker called by for the old man, and when his assets were boiled down and the water drawn off, there wasn't enough left to furnish Stan with a really nourishing meal.

  32. I simply mention Stan in passing as an example of the fact that it isn't so much knowing a whole lot, as knowing a little and how to use it that counts.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    stand against; stand forth; stand here; stand ready; stand thou; stand twenty; stand upon; stand upright; standard for hydrographic codes; standard silver; standard time; standard work; standing army; standing committee; standing committees; standing erect; standing here; standing near; standing still; standing stones; standing there; standing timber; standing upon; stands alone; stands pledged; stands upon