How to Use upstanding in a Sentence

upstanding

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• This man was and always has been a solid and upstanding guy.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• The episode underscores how moral and upstanding Aram is as an agent and a person.
  — Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2022
• Kevin is one of the most upstanding public servants and nicest all-around people.
  — Eric Lipton, Kenneth P. Vogel and Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• But Kim had been by the book, a moral and upstanding citizen and a damn fine attorney.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Bones as an upstanding citizen of St. Paul and icon on Rice Street.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2017
• Good, upstanding adults, after all, keep a clean house.
  — Mari-Jane Williams, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• Alvarez and Golovkin were seen as upstanding men who lived and fought in a clean, no-nonsense manner.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
• These are some of the most upstanding citizens on campus.
  — Matthew Choi, star-telegram, 11 July 2018
• Then, a few months after the verdict, one of Webster’s upstanding neighbors, Philip Smith, fell ill.
  — Bridget Marshall, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2019
• One of your most upstanding congregants, my dad, recently gave me his opinion on the song and video.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
• So prized were the fruits of his labors that an otherwise upstanding neighbor became a cantaloupe thief.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Horn is very well-respected and seen as one of the most honest and upstanding executives in the business.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 July 2022
• Celebrities, therefore, should be upstanding role models and paragons of virtue who contribute to China’s rise in the world.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
• Soon thereafter an upstanding citizen drove one of the black teenagers into the woods, placed a noose around the child’s neck and demanded a confession.
  — Carol Anderson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• Roy might have had the same upstanding standards as his counterpart on the silver screen, but his life was not spared the hardship and heartache of a Hollywood story.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 19 June 2022
• To an upstanding person such as your friend (or, for that matter, Miss Manners), that would make no difference.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Why, Lotta Crabtree, the actress who gave the fountain to the city in 1875, was an upstanding citizen and feminist.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
• Labude’s father, a wealthy lawyer who is freely cheating on his wife, provides a model for the upstanding hypocrite, abandoning the old pre-war ways.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
• Such a set-up could strain the neutrality of even the most upstanding arbitrator.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Lucas is tall, rigidly upstanding and slightly ridiculous among the strong, sturdy men around him.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 May 2022
• That was part of her story, building herself up to look like an upstanding, giving person.
  — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2020
• Slowly but surely, his upstanding image of a begins to crack.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• Stone is a longtime judge, award-winning journalist and author, and all-around upstanding guy.
  — Susan Callaway, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• Suddenly people are to assume that Trump would be on his best and most upstanding behavior—in the lobby of very building that bears his name?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2018
• The Root would never stoop so low as to besmirch the upstanding character of a great American citizen like Joe Arpaio.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Jan. 2018
• The other is Bacon (Akron Watson), the upstanding proprietor of the local funeral home where Turquoise works part-time as a makeup artist.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 June 2020
• This outcome likely has to do with the upstanding nature of Uniswap and its founder, Hayden Adams, who by all indications is one of the good guys in an industry filled with rogues.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 1 Sep. 2023
• Pyre asks, to protect the church’s reputation, what with Ron being an upstanding church member.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2022
• On paper, Nicholas Trott, governor of New Providence, was an upstanding pillar of the community.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Brett Wilson, the administrative judge with the county circuit court, remembered Wilkinson as an upstanding judge and member of the community.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024