Did not the prayer of Joshua make the sun to stand still, till he had vanquished his enemies?
Do not think it a folly to stand still now, and examine it, when you have gone on so long in their company.
I beseech you, stand still, and consider whither it will lead, do but stop a little, and bethink yourselves sadly and seriously whither this will take you, where it shall end.
And to stand still in such a case, would mean to stay behind the clouds, and remain obscured, the same sense as before.
Moreover, even if the word did mean stand still, Joshua would only be likely to have asked for the sun and moon to stand still, if they were apparently moving.
The press was obliged to stand still when Favoretta, or his friend, Mad.
Verily, to such measure and ticktack, it liketh neither to dance nor to stand still.
Stand still, that I may reason with you, before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord.
Defn: A command to a horse, probably meaning "stand still.
Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day.
Moses, he wanted to allay the fury of the sea and cause it to stand still.
The men who stood behind Mr. Wenzel moved forward, but the tall, herculean figure of the member of the tailors' guild resisted them and compelled them to stand still.
He admonished me to be industrious, never to believe that I had learned enough; never to stand still, but always to struggle on.
I constrained myself to stand still, though every muscle grew tense as a drawn bowstring, and I felt the strong rage rising in my throat and choking me as I waited for him to enter.
It is almost a daily habit with Master Purple to call Patty into the floor while the geography class recites, and afterwards to give her a small whipping, for no other reason in the world than that she cannot stand still.
Then Webster's Third Part, and unhappy little Patty steps out, almost crying with chilblains, and has to be shaken because she doesn't stand still.
From time to time the driver glanced up at the door of the house and then back at the carriage, shaking his head and muttering fiercely: "Stand still, you sons of the devil, stand still!
Hence, from first to last, the word to Israel was, "stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah.
The moment a man is brought to the discovery of his utter powerlessness, the divine word is, "Stand still, and see the salvation of God.
But, the moment we take that ground, the word is, "Stand still, and see the salvation of God.
See, Polly," and he flopped over suddenly, turning two or three somersaults, to stand still on his head.
Per Kofod spoke as though he had taken part in all of them; he had quite forgotten that he used always to stand still gripping on to something and bellowing, if the others came bawling round him.
It occurred to no one to stand still and to doubt; they were only too willing to believe!
Whenever you had occasion to stand still, the man would, of course, be as immoveable as yourself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stand still" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
