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Example sentences for "standing upon"

  • She is standing upon a rounded hillock, on which are a strawberry plant with two fruits, two caterpillars, a red tulip, and another flower.

  • Near him is a beetle, and in the sky a blue cloud, and he is standing upon a grass mound.

  • David is standing upon a grass plot, represented by small arches of green purl, and before him is sitting a small dog with a blue collar.

  • The lady is standing upon a small green mound.

  • Up the incline of her back they raced merrily, and, standing upon mother's head, they ate with eagerness this wonderful feast of honey.

  • Standing upon it with hind feet, he reached down with both fore paws and went through an up-and-down motion like a washerwoman.

  • Standing upon a bowlder, he was looking over the tops of the spruce trees that thrust up out of the gulch.

  • It is a round tower, 70 feet high, standing upon a mound, and its history appears to have been lost.

  • It is a castle almost without a history, standing upon a rocky height with inaccessible precipices on three sides, the foremost one over 300 feet in height.

  • Of these practically nothing remains but the shell of a strong castle, now converted into the county gaol, standing upon a rocky eminence overlooking the town.

  • It represents him in his naval full dress, and a cloak falling from his shoulders, standing upon a pedestal, leaning upon an anchor and coil of rope.

  • The great bronze statue of Bavaria, just outside the city, is a huge figure of sixty feet in height, standing upon a pedestal thirty feet high.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "standing upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attach themselves; chopped fine; country home; eight feet; government must; human wants; love affair; make from; met her; necessary result; oblate spheroid; public welfare; remain behind; standing committee; standing committees; standing erect; standing here; standing order; standing position; standing still; standing stones; standing there; standing water; sugar and; weigh anchor; will find