How to Use stand around in a Sentence

stand around

phrasal verb

• And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 May 2024
• The West cannot stand around and wait for the cow to die.
  — Graeme Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023
• Players stand around the edges of the sheet and hold it in the air.
  — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 29 July 2024
• They're made from the earth, are covered in grass and stand around 30 feet high.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
• But Blackmon didn't make this move just to stand around and watch.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2023
• Throughout the game, a group of teenagers stand around recording the action.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• And, of course, all the models are standing around with no clothes on backstage.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
• Concerts involve more than just a throng of fans standing around on the grass.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• There were two sparse groups of people standing around them.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
• The average price in all three of those cities now stands around $2.80 per gallon.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
• The average price in all three of those cities now stands around $2.80 per gallon.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2024
• Now, somehow, all four of us are standing around the kid, making space.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• The air had a pre-fight crackle to it; people stood around waiting to see how the tension would break.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• The twin sisters stand around in the jungle, arguing over the skirmish.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• There’s a lot of standing around watching the horses work, so people can talk.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The snowy, wooded scene shows a gaggle of droids standing around a grill with what looks to be cheese curds directly on the grates.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• Mind you, the soldiers shoot them with machine guns from about four feet away and the scientists just stand around as the zombies turn.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Once all the ducklings were gone, folks stood around in shock and horror as Juniper went after the mama.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
• Enter Email Sign Up Prior to this year, summer rates for the last three years stood around 8 to 9 cents per kilowatt hour.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• The boy’s older sister, now 26, said some men who weren’t involved in the fight were standing around laughing.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Owing to the protests over the police shooting, armored guards stood around the building’s perimeter.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• For several minutes, the video shows the woman talking to the deputies standing around her about the traffic stop.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 July 2023
• The longer the House can’t function, the greater the chance that the economy gets wrecked or the United States loses standing around the world with our allies and partners.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• No Coast Kitchen has since developed a base of loyal customers that follow the food stand around town.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024
• Several people stand around the pool deck watching the deer and appear to try to guide the animal using the buoys.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• People stand around large craters in the ground left by Israeli bombardments in Rafah on Monday.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Of course, visitors stand around the enclosure swearing, trying to get the parrots to copy them.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• Stores have few or no customers, and shopkeepers stand around looking bored.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• Fireworks erupted throughout the night as neighbors stood around.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
• The lowest branch should stand around 18 inches above the ground, with about 6 inches in height between subsequent scaffold branches.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024