There was a big white oak tree growin by the side of the road and when the doctor passed there every limb fell off the tree and left the naked tree standin there.
I 'comember' when I was a little chap standin on the block with my mammy and being sold.
It was an allfired overgrown candlestick a standin on legs, and eenamost as tall as I be.
There was one thing more a standin up in the corner that beat all I ever did see.
I looked around for Miss Sneers, but she wasn't there yit, and the chaps by the table didn't seem tu know that I was standin there, and a lettin off my prime bows all for nothin.
De preacher, he would have a big towel to wipe his hands wid en every child's mammy would be standin right behind hind dem wid a rag to wipe de (drain) dren water out dey eyes.
I recollects, dey would march us right up to de front of de church en de preacher would come down to whe' we was standin wid a basin of water in one hand en a towel in de other hand.
I was sittin up in de corner en look up en patrol was standin in de door en call patrol.
I remember me en my old Missus went to de graveyard one mornin en we found a runaway nigger hidin in a house dat was standin in de graveyard.
The time hung sae dreich on his hand, he thocht the world was standin still.
I notist for several days a large Hearse standin in front of the principal tavern on Pennsylvany Avenoo.
Ten minutes after the doors were opened, the Ushers had to put up cards on which was prntd, "Standin Room Only.
It get some of dem standin on de top of dey heads.
No, honey, I reckon de house dat was standin up in dat day en time was substantial like en it didn' worry none of dem.
I tell you I ain' know what it was to be scared of, but dere been de old Ark (boarding house) standin cross de street den en dem people was scared most to death.
No, mam, dey knock chillun down in dat day en time dat dey see standin up lookin in dey eyes to hear.
The appinted nite came, and I was standin behind the winder curten, peekin out the upper hall winder, anxiusly awaitin the arrival of the crowd.
Noticin that the titles I hed heerd wuz mostly tacked to Southern men, I asked Giddy Welles, who wuz standin by, why it wuz thus, and he sed that Northners wuzn't reely fit for it.
A cold sweat wuz a standin on my intellectooal brow, and a mortal shiverin shook me.
I guess the aunts thought he was a new mountin or somethin cause they was all standin on him the next mornin.
It had its tither hand liftit up, and was mutter, muttering some horrid spell, while a crew o' the same kind o' grizly beardit phantoms were standin round them.
A deppytashun of red-faced men cum up to the door of my tent ware I was standin takin money (the arternoon exhibishun had commenst, an' my Italyun organist was jerkin his sole-stirrin chimes.
But aw mun be off for standin tawkin to thee willn't get th' clooas weshed.
Just as they oppened th' door all th' singers wor standinup to begin.
Standin here in this here Skoolhouse, upon my nativ shor so to speak, I anser--Nary!
Ginral Taylor was a standin on his hed and Wingfield Skott's koat tales ware pind over his hed and his trowsis ware kompleetly torn orf frum hisself.
Finally ses he, "Majer, wat are you standin there for?
What is the use of a President when there's a standin army?
Who brought that are scare-crow out of standin corn and stuck him here?
Presently in runs old Snow, with his hair standin up an eend, and the whites of his eyes lookin as big as the rims of a soup plate; oh!
And off she sot, lookin as scorney as a London lady, and leavin the poor minister standin starin like a stuck pig.
Well, Mable, in my last letter I left myself standin all alone in the middle of the woods lissenin to a lot of things flyin round my head that arent in no bird book.
About all it amounted to was standin around in the rain half an hour longer for mess.
An then agen when your standin in line an somebody says "Parade rest.
I heard a lot of cussin an when we got up there was five Fritzes standin in a pit with a machine gun.
Then I woke up an the Top was standin outside blowin on his whissel like he was tryin to blow the pea out of it an sayin "Fall in.
Angus an I was standin outside the dugout finishin our mornin goldfish an plannin a few correkshuns for the army when a boiler exploshun happened right behind us.
The fello that owned the place was standin at the gate when we came in.
When that thing lit we was all standin round watchin the Lootenant.
While we was standin there wonderin wether somebodied been smokin in bed in the amunishun dug out another boiler blew up right in front of us.
They got a drill over here called the standin gun drill.
Everyone else was laffin an throwin things with him standin off an noone throwin a thing at him.
The other day I got laffin while I was standin in line.
The men like me to be corperal of the guard because when the relief goes out I take all their blankets an go right to sleep instead of standin outside an watchin them freeze.
You can't do no good a settin or a standin up here, squintin through a darkness that might be felt, an that's as thick as any felt I ever saw.
It's the one great, gen'ral, an standinterror of this dangerous and iron-bound bay.
I know dey said dat 'cause I was standin up listenin to dem just like any other child be standin dere lookin up in your mouth.
I was standin at de peach tree in de patch en she have one en when she get near me, she stoop down en pick another.
One day I wasstandin lookin thru de bars o' de gate wen I seen out in de road de largest dog I ever seed in all my life.
You so hungry, you just standin dere wid your mouth droolin dat way.
I was standin dere on de piazza lookin at dem en I say, 'I don' see why dey want to carry on like dat for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "standin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
