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Example sentences for "when standing"

  • Or if a man, when standing on a wreck, should ask me--Will your life-boat take me in safety through this fearful storm?

  • When standing or walking the arms were held out horizontally, as if to maintain the equilibrium of the body.

  • When standing, the patient had a peculiar bowed condition of the legs, with marked flexure at the knees.

  • The bird produces it when standing on an old prostrate log.

  • To begin with, as a rule, game is not so easy to approach when feeding as when standing about or lying down.

  • An adult cock ostrich, when standing upright, would measure quite 10 ft.

  • When standing upright, they will be about two and a half to three feet in height, but this posture is not natural to them, and they rarely adopt it unless constrained.

  • He measures, when standing upright, three feet and a half to four feet.

  • There is, in fact, little difference between the size of the ankle and the leg; and, when standing, the skin at the knee hangs in a large loose fold.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when standing" 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:
    great calm; once despatched; publicly display; when about; when alone; when anyone; when completed; when considered; when cool; when given; when light; when mother; when one; when perfectly; when planted; when pursued; when required; when they; when they saw him; when thou art king; when thus; when viewed; when wanted; whence also; whence the; whenever they