How to Use grandstand in a Sentence

grandstand

1 of 2 noun
  • Near the end of the race, a tire flies over the grandstand at 150 m.p.h.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • The track allowed about 20% of the grandstand to be filled.
    David Brandt, ajc, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The scenes in the grandstand after the U.S. goals were joyful.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The best spot to watch the fireworks is from the grandstands at La Ronde.
    Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • The trailer was just behind the grandstands on the 18th hole.
    Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The wheel sailed over the top of the end of the Turn 2 grandstands and split the gap between the grandstands and the Turn 2 suites.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • Get a spot in the grandstand to check out the putting on the 4th hole green and the driving from the 5th hole tee box.
    Drew Davison, star-telegram, 25 May 2018
  • The race started to our left and finished in front of the grandstand.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Be a part of all the high-speed action with a pair of grandstand seats.
    The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
  • The Kansas City fans got back on their feet in the grandstand.
    Bill Pennington, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The starting gate was in the backstretch chute, rather than in front of the grandstand.
    Stephen Edelson, azcentral, 20 June 2020
  • From the backside workouts to the grandstand, a look at Louisville's day at the track.
    Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2018
  • Up in the grandstand, Cian and his family found some seats for the rest of the races.
    Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Fans booed as the horses returned to the grandstand after the race.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The crowds in the grandstand at the 16th hole are reflected in the water hazard.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Koi Drag Racing will take place at 4 p.m. in the grandstand.
    Megan Becka, cleveland, 26 July 2021
  • The grandstand crowd went bananas as the two Kyles jousted.
    Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 1 July 2018
  • Unlike the sprint races, which end near the grandstand north of the festival area, the head races run the whole course.
    Shannon Eblen, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • There is a small grandstand across the pits, just beyond the start finish line.
    Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2023
  • There were audible gasps from the grandstand at the bottom of the course as fans watched on the big screen.
    Steve Douglas, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
  • The one-tier grandstand surrounds the entire field and there is simply not a bad seat in the house.
    Bobby Sullivan, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The fan had season tickets in the Sivori Alta grandstand, the team added.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 4 June 2023
  • There wasn’t any piece of the grandstands or any patch of grass that wasn’t covered in people.
    Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
  • Otherwise, the place has cleared out — from its vast parking lots to the grandstands to the grass oval.
    Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
  • On Wednesday, Blaney will join fans in the grandstand for a pizza lunch.
    John Henry, star-telegram, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Those who wish to stretch their legs have lots of space to do that on the concourse that spans the grandstand from foul pole to foul pole.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The Rookie of the Year frontrunner drilled the ball into the right-field grandstand for a three-run homer, his 24th launch of the year.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Without its frame of the packed grandstand, the view of the emerald green field would be far less stirring.
    Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
  • A few hours later, Dall sheep watch us splash through rapids from the grandstand of canyon walls.
    Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The Beavers hoped to have permanent grandstands in place this spring.
    Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 May 2023
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grandstand

2 of 2 verb
  • Goodwin is a tall, smart, look-at-me type with a line of grandstanding rock ’n’ roll patter.
    Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
  • This one will be too close for Dabo to call grandstanding timeouts in the final minutes.
    Jay Boozell, ajc, 21 Nov. 2017
  • This year, grandstands around Turn 1 were removed and replaced with a high-end campground, the Turn 1 Resort.
    George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2018
  • Pete Mackanin stood at home plate in 1980 and watched his fly ball soar towards the Fenway Park grandstands.
    Matt Breen, Philly.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The Mayor was grandstanding—this was what people were saying.
    Mark Singer, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Also in the works is a one-of-a-kind Wall of Honor to celebrate the track's winning drivers with banner signage at the bottom of the Wallace and Colvin grandstands on each side of the oval.
    USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Several said his plan was short-sighted and an attempt to grandstand on an issue that has frustrated the city for years.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • That leaves an opportunity for one of the other four to grandstand by voting no and then playing to the press afterward.
    Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • One result will be a diminution of candor, and a commensurate increase in grandstanding and playing to the public back home.
    Jonathan Rauch, Time, 19 May 2017
  • As the referee, Harvey Dock, counted over Spence’s fallen body, Crawford turned his back to the scene and began grandstanding to some friends at ringside.
    Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Prosecutors, however, have asked the judge to bar Pawlowski from grandstanding on his record in office.
    Philly.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The 49ers’ defensive coordinator, Robert Saleh came out three hours before kickoff Saturday to run up and down the Levi’s grandstands for half an hour.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • An early sequence, in which his tech savviness saves the day during one of Balsillie’s presentations, proves that the geek and the grandstanding salesman are the real match made in heaven.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2023
  • Politicians on both sides of the aisle have been grandstanding in their criticism against the NBA in recent weeks for allegedly placing dollars over human rights in China.
    NBC News, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Never let it be said that Trump misses an opportunity to grandstand.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 June 2018
  • Then, once what she’s done gets dragged further into the light, the character has to unravel in a way that doesn’t suggest grandstanding or digging into a buffet of chompable scenery.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
  • But Everett doesn’t grandstand about self-esteem or standards of beauty, as many of her contemporaries do; her ease in her own skin is liberation enough.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The goal is to de-politicize the process and get to the truth, instead of grandstanding and giving senators an opportunity to launch their presidential campaigns.
    WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Trump, argued Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham, grandstands over a border crisis that does not exist (see his chart below).
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
  • Yes, in all likelihood your colleague probably is grandstanding because that’s one of the ways ambitious people get heard.
    Don Yaeger, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • For decades, members of Congress have marked the occasion of raising the ceiling with grandstanding speeches about the other side’s spending priorities.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 13 May 2023
  • Lawmakers fumed and grandstanded, but didn't reconvene to overturn his vetoes.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
  • His willingness to criticize his own party, derail House business and risk a debt default in pursuit of conservative policies have at times brought charges of grandstanding.
    Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
  • And they are treated as mentally imbalanced or grandstanding accusers.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Or is California simply grandstanding by picking a fight with a president the state government despises?
    WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The questions ranged widely, but most lawmakers seemed more interested in grandstanding than eliciting constructive answers from one of the world’s youngest multibillionaires.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • What has not proceeded as fast is a credible response from Cory Gardner and his Republican colleagues; storming the House proceedings hardly counts as anything other than grandstanding.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The only people who pretend that spending and borrowing are two separate decisions are politicians who are trying to grandstand before ignorant voters.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The discussions quickly descended into bickering, with an extraordinary back and forth that saw the two sides trading accusations over the state of democracy in their countries and accuse each other of grandstanding.
    Eric Martin, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
  • Under fire from antitrust regulators, grandstanding politicians, and proponents of truth and democracy the world over, Zuckerberg has recently adopted a more aggressive style of leadership.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 May 2020

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