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Example sentences for "things stood"

  • Sherley to send them any more goods) broke of their trade at Kenebeck, and, as things stood, would follow it no longer.

  • Hatherley, to certifie each other how y^e state of things stood.

  • William Peirce had a parte ther as is before noted, yet now, as things stood, he was glad to have his money repayed him, and stand out.

  • For it was Florian’s cue, as things stood, to make much of Linnet, for many reasons.

  • However, as things stood, the acquired instincts of civilisation compelled him to hold in check for a moment the more deeply ingrained impulses of his mountain nature.

  • Already that morning she had talked it over with Florian; and Florian, for the furtherance of his own designs, had agreed it would be best for them to alter their route, as things stood, in favour of a new project which Rue suggested.

  • Though now, as things stood, of course, she could never care for him.

  • To ask that question was, as things stood, to cry to an oracle which was dumb.

  • Therefore, as things stood at that time, a great deal more was not practicable.

  • As things stood formerly, they possessed a positive scheme of direction and of consolation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "things stood" 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:
    deductive science; for myself; like other; mortality from; place where; proper consistency; slender stalk; striking resemblance; terminal moraines; things above; things according; things around; things done; things existing; things hoped; things past; things pertaining; things present; things stood; things that; things went; things were; things which; too long; under his; young chap