Yet have I set Lasthenes to stand against him, young in years but old in counsel, very keen of eye, and swift of hand to cast his javelin from under his shield.
I am ready to carry off this man with a strong arm; and how, being a cripple, shall he stand against us?
At the end of a year, a Teutonic chief named Odoacer crossed the Alps at the head of a great mixture of different German tribes, and Orestes could make no stand against him, but was taken and put to death.
King Arthur to King Angus, "yon is a very strong, powerful, noble knight; now where mayst thou find one who can hope to stand against him in this coming battle?
How then can you, who are altogether new to the use of arms, hope to stand against so renowned a champion as he?
There is no one in all the world who will aid me unless it be you, for you alone of all the knights in the world beyond the circle of the knights of the Round Table may hope to stand against so excellent and so strong a hero!
Bid them therefore be diligent in war; and let them know for themselves and tell their children after them that there is no power on earth so great that it shall be able to stand against them.
Yet did one man, Phegeus by name, stand against him, and would have stayed the chariot, clutching the bridles of the horses in his hand.
We have tried to stand against them, but it is all to no purpose.
And Bres made no stand against them, but let them get their way.
But for all that there were good fighters among them, and Ferdiad, that made so good a stand against Cuchulain, in the war for the Bull of Cuailgne was one of them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stand against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
