How to Use stand down in a Sentence

stand down

verb
  • She was told to stand down and never again speak to Schmidt.
    James Bandler, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But the thousands of fans on the ballroom floor would not stand down.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Who will stand down, who will flinch, who will cross the line, who will get hit?
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2020
  • As between the two of them, there is no doubt which should stand down.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The district could ask crews to stand down on the other projects, the district said.
    Marci Shatzman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • Pagan then got off his bike and put the kick stand down, the report shows.
    Tess Sheets, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • But there is a time to stand down or, in the case of Mr. Tan, to live to fight another day.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But there is good reason to hope that Alden will stand down.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The wrestlers stopped their protest as a result, but three months on Singh hasn’t been stood down.
    Vedika Sud, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • The band made a public plea that U2 ask their label to stand down.
    Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
  • We had been told that the city police have been ordered to stand down.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 7 July 2020
  • Once the man and his watercraft were safely aboard the freighter, the Coast Guard stood down, Haraf said.
    Adelie Bergstrom, Twin Cities, 16 July 2019
  • The exchange sparked fears of a new Middle East war, but both sides then stood down.
    Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Gibbs and McGee are about to arrest Eberhard when Vance calls and tells them to stand down.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Austin ordered the stand down partly to get a handle on that.
    Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 11 Feb. 2021
  • May is about to stand down and what happens next is anyone's guess.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 June 2019
  • And sometimes the hardest thing to do is simply stand down.
    Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Late in the day, Trump issued what was supposed to be an appeal to his mob to stand down.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Commanders must pick a day to stand down during the next six weeks.
    Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Charity Adams’ postal unit was one of those that would stand down.
    Mari K. Eder, Time, 3 Aug. 2021
  • One man in shorts stood down a bus until the tourists disembarked.
    Rachel Pannett, WSJ, 22 May 2018
  • Young: There is no surprise by the team’s decision to stand down.
    Staff Report, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The American people can loosen that grip, and can also stand down the NRA.
    William Cummings, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The city aims to stand down the Sullivan Arena mass shelter by the end of summer.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • People arriving in vans were asked to fill out a form that asked their top four goals at the stand down.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In the bottom of the third inning, a man jumped on to the field from the stands down the third-base line and proceeded to run out into the middle of the game.
    Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Kirby said there are no decisions yet on how long the stand down will be.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Doggett was the first sitting member of Congress to publicly urge Biden to stand down.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The odds that either side will stand down as graciously as Al Gore did are slim.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Her performance as the new nominee has so far seemed to vindicate the historic and — at the time — controversial calls from congressional Democrats for Mr. Biden to stand down.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024

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