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Example sentences for "stood there"

  • He stood there quivering in every nerve, as: "Help!

  • In fact he was so perturbed, that he stood there shaking, quivering, unable to speak or act, and the car drove away before he had recovered sufficient presence of mind to note the number.

  • As he stood there, Madeleine entered by the street-door.

  • In the air a gentle melancholy was abroad, and, as he stood there, wax for any passing mood, it descended on him and enveloped him.

  • Maurice, who watched them both surreptitiously, saw his face change, and grow thoughtful as he stood there; but when Avery Hill ceased abruptly on a discord, he wheeled round at once and patted her on the back.

  • And then, winding his arm round her waist, he stood there gazing at the fire, and she with her head leaning in his shoulder, stood by him, well satisfied with her position.

  • As he stood there he began to be aware that he was himself in love.

  • He stood there, therefore, red as a carbuncle and mute as a fish; grinning just sufficiently to show his teeth; an object of pity.

  • We stood there, looking, as the afternoon light flooded the plain.

  • Then I saw some running; and next, as I stood there wondering, came another crack, and then a volley like the noise of a great fire licking into dry wood, and things that were not bees humming round about.

  • I shall never forget him as he stood there (for what seemed an age) recalling one by one the wrongs this woman had done him.

  • He stood there for a moment biting at his lips, hesitant between anger and tolerant amusement; and then, the latter evidently gaining the ascendency, he too shrugged his shoulders, and with a laugh returned to his chair.

  • In the squalid tenement before which she stood there would be no help of the kind that was needed.

  • These thoughts were passing through her mind as she stood there, listening to the song; stood there as one turned to stone, her throbbing temples pressed against the door's pillar.

  • I had gone down to the front gate, to see how deep the snow lay in the road, when the postman came up; so I read it as I stood there.

  • Barbara, perceiving then that Otway Bethel also stood there, but just beyond the view of the women.

  • Tall and beautiful he stood there, In his garments green and yellow; To and fro his plumes above him, Waved and nodded with his breathing, And the sweat of the encounter Stood like drops of dew upon him.

  • So on a sudden transfigured he stood there, lie spake and he questioned.

  • So he stood there abashed, and gave her the flowers for an answer.

  • I say I stood there, for I was there bodily, in my habit as I lived; how, I cannot explain.

  • As I stood there, looking at the window that interested me most, the curtains were drawn, the window was opened, and a form appeared in a white robe.

  • The sun shone full upon it, as we stood there; and the air was full of the scent of tropical fruit and just-coming blossoms.

  • And as he stood there he hated himself because of his scheme.

  • The last of the sun faded out of the sky as he stood there.

  • His disappointment fell on him even as he stood there.

  • He stood there, looking in the direction taken by Bush McTaggart, and chuckled in a curious, exultant sort of way.

  • Why was it that he trembled now as he stood there?

  • And as he stood there in the window the light was too strong for him.

  • We stood there waiting (for the Salisbury train was late), and wondering with a warm, half-fearful eagerness what sort of new thread Life was going to twine into our skein.

  • As he stood there, turned from me, with his hat off, and his neck painfully flushed under the sharp outcurve of his dark head, a feeling of pity surged up in me, as if I had taken an unfair advantage.

  • She rose, not as if she had heard me, but with an indescribable grand melancholy of indifference and detachment, and, within a dozen feet of me, stood there as my vile predecessor.

  • He stood there smiling; then at last he put into two words--"Do YOU?

  • As he stood there in that cemetery with its rows of crosses, silently eloquent of heroism and of sacrifice, the spirit of the place seemed to breathe into him new life.

  • As he stood there in the darkness, hearing that music in his heart, a voice broke in, swearing hard and deep oaths.

  • I stood there entranced, delighted with this short and charming apparition, which brought to my mind a whole world of poetry.

  • A man bent nearly double, and out of breath, stood there, ten-yards from them, dragging a cow at the end of a rope.

  • At the Place de la Concorde she took a carriage, and I stood there like a fool, moved by the strongest desire that had ever assailed me.

  • The figure of a child came upon the bridge and stood there for a moment peering about as if looking for some one.

  • It stood there, and all the others lined the street like so many traps set for Burns.

  • He was evidently free to go his way now, but he stood there making no movement.

  • I could almost have believed that my body had dropped aside, that I stood there naked, unprotected, a form-less spirit, stirred and lifted by the passing breeze.

  • It must seem astonishing for me, a mere soldier and Colonial Governor, to confess you that I stood there listening to the song for a long interval of what I can only term, with utmost sincerity, communion.

  • I stood there for a long time trembling; I was a part of it; I felt that I was shining, as though my inner joy irradiated the world about me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stood there" 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:
    dans les; deeply rooted; door relief; eighth year; good weather; internal affairs; many countries; open book; settling down; stood away; stood erect; stood for; stood gazing; stood like; stood listening; stood looking; stood motionless; stood over; stood ready; stood silent; stood still; stood stock; stood thus; stood upright; thick coat; total vote