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Example sentences for "stood for"

  • I stood for a second or so at the crossing of the lanes, watching her recede, and then became aware that my uncle was already some paces off and talking over his shoulder in the belief that I was close behind.

  • I stood for a long time watching these and thinking whether after all I should not have done better to have run away to sea.

  • In Wimblehurst I felt I stood for Science; nobody there seemed to have so much as I and to have it so fully and completely.

  • He stood for an instant without movement, every faculty on the alert.

  • He stood for a moment silent, straining his ears to catch the slightest sound, reconstructing the plan of his surroundings in his mind as he remembered it.

  • He stood for a moment, listening--utter silence.

  • On the street corner he stood for a long time, frowning in trouble and perplexity.

  • He stood for a time outside the gate, a battlefield of motives.

  • He stood for a moment, a pitiful figure of penitent confusion.

  • It stood for a second perhaps, astonishing and in its attitude astonished, then it crumpled, shivered into pieces, and the 'bus horse was incidentally killed.

  • He stood for a little while thus looking and listening.

  • We stood for it, but could find no anchorage, the whole island being surrounded by breakers.

  • He stood for awhile on the lowest platform of the steps, the light of the lamp falling on the upturned face of the stroke oar, who held the gunwale of the boat close alongside, ready for the captain to step in.

  • He stood for a while, his hands grasping the lintels on each side of the door, and writhed about, glaring wildly, as if he had been crucified there.

  • Before going up the steps of his house he stood for awhile, his feet well apart, chin in hand, contemplating mentally Hudig's future partner.

  • A white-haired priest, all tremulous dignity and delicacy, stood for a moment beside the rope-barrier, waiting for a friend.

  • The new machine, and the men that were running it, seemed to me an ugly jerry-built affair, compared with the Papacy and all that it stood for.

  • The young padre parroco appeared--a slim, engaging figure, as he stood for an instant amid the curtains of the doorway, glancing at the two ladies with an expression at once shy and confiding.

  • He was preparing to go, and went up to the doorway where, drawing aside the curtain, he stood for a moment pointing out to Marguerite the distant figure of Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in close conversation with Lady Portarles.

  • He stood for a moment, rigid and still, but for the clenching of his hand against the stone balustrade of the terrace.

  • He stood for a moment in the middle of the room, whilst Marguerite, absolutely paralysed with horror, seemed unable even to breathe.

  • He stood for a long while irresolute, with the candle in his hand.

  • Before they reached the town wall "master told me to stop again, got out of the carriage, and went across the road into the field; I thought he felt ill but he stopped and began looking at the flowers, and so he stood for a time.

  • He stood for a few seconds longer, then went out of the room.

  • This obliged us to keep away a league and a half, when we again steered to the northward; and, after passing over a bank, with nineteen fathoms water, stood for a passage between Mowee and an island called Ranai.

  • Finding that we could fetch Owhyhee, I stood for it; and our visitors from Mowee not choosing to accompany us, embarked in their canoe, and went ashore.

  • Being in want of water, and perceiving that we run some risk of driving about in a rapid tide, without wind to govern the ship, I stood for a harbour, lying on the S.

  • Even the groom at Fairview, who took his horse, glanced back at him with a peculiar expression as he stood for a moment on the steps with a hesitancy the man had never before remarked.

  • He put his hands on the arms of his chair and lifted himself to his feet, where he stood for a moment, a tell figure to be remembered.

  • He got to his feet and walked slowly to the far edge of the rock, where he stood for a while, seemingly gazing off across the spaces to Sawanec.

  • I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.

  • He stood for a moment with that smile on his face--swayed, and would have fallen had it not been for the quickness of a man on the platform behind him, and into whose arms he sank.

  • I stood for a while stock-still, and then went into the living-room, where Maude was sewing.

  • And I stood for a time with clean and happy eyes looking at the intricate delicacy before me and marveling how richly God has made his worlds.

  • I stopped, and we stood for a moment in silence looking at one another.

  • I stood for a moment dazed, and more than a little giddy.

  • He stood for a moment paralysed, and during that moment a strong hand caught him by the throat.

  • He stood for a moment or two looking at Wogan.

  • He stood for a moment with a look of great fear upon his face.

  • The combing did not cease, and he stood for a moment in thought.

  • He stood for a minute thumbing his lean and shaven jaw; then, with another glance at the board, he walked slowly across the square to Number Six.

  • Carroll opened, and we stood for a moment motioning to one another to step in.

  • It had been jacked up on a heavy base; and as it would have taken three or four men to put it into position, and scarcely a stranger had entered the yard since I had been there, I knew that the figure must have stood for a long time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stood for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    can never; captain over; certain state; curious anecdote; friendly port; having written; lean beef; perfectly fresh; real gentleman; sixteen inches; stood away; stood before; stood beside; stood erect; stood gazing; stood listening; stood looking; stood ready; stood still; stood stock; stood there; stood thus; stood upon; stood very; successful conclusion; thousand pound