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Example sentences for "still standing"

  • Occasionally a house, such as the splendid Warner Mansion, still standing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is proved to be of imported brick by the bills which are still existing for the purchase and transportation of the brick.

  • We can ascertain its original length from a part of the west wall, which is still standing, though enclosed in a mass of Arab cottages, against which are the remains of two piers with their bases perfect.

  • In the church we must not omit to notice the dome as belonging to a date posterior to the original building, but a little prior to the minaret at the south-west corner, a large part of which is still standing.

  • It had three apses at the east end; the southern of these is still standing; the fragments of the others are nearly covered by heaps of earth, as are portions of the side walls.

  • This was a terrible moment for Goliath: still standing alone in the centre of a ring that grew smaller every second, he saw on all sides angry enemies rushing towards him, and uttering cries of death.

  • The huge trunk of a dead tree, still standing, but much bent, and with its summit reaching to the roof of the ajoupa, rises from the midst of the brushwood.

  • Szafout (Arabic), where are ruins of some extent, with a spring; the gate of a public edifice is still standing.

  • Among the old houses that are still standing, few have the dignity and stateliness of this mansion, and its roof has sheltered some of the most important men and women connected with our country's history.

  • His early education was obtained in a little brick schoolhouse that is still standing at Hillsboro Centre, about a mile and a half distant from his home.

  • One of their old houses, still standing on Essex Street, Salem, was built in 1750 by one Joseph Sprague, a merchant.

  • To the west of this, at about two hundred yards distance, are the remains of a small temple, with three Corinthian pillars, still standing.

  • The latter is still standing alone, a faithful watcher over dust neglected and forgotten.

  • Forman Place, still standing close to the village of Freehold, what a place of memories it is!

  • His death was deeply lamented by the colony, and the assembly erected a statue in honor of him, which is still standing, somewhat mutilated, in front of the college.

  • A] John Lewis erected on the spot selected for his home a stone-house, still standing, and it came to be known as Lewis's Fort.

  • Still standing, all right,” he said to himself.

  • That’s the point—it is still standing there.

  • As Tony says, it has been in ruins for years—but it’s still standing!

  • We there mentioned the remains of an oratory, or chapel, still standing in the south-west corner of the kitchen garden at the old Hall.

  • At that same period the bell of Kirkstead chapel also hung in a tree, still standing at the south-west corner of the churchyard.

  • The passage can, hence, have been written only at the time when the temple was still standing.

  • Unless we mean to adopt the altogether unsuitable expedient of explaining it of a wild twig which shoots forth from the roots of a still standing tree, we cannot but think of a stem cut down to the very root.

  • It was replaced in the early fifteen hundreds by Van den Poël's sumptuous Palais du Franc, of which a remnant is still standing, and still forms one of the most picturesque groups in the city of Bruges.

  • One of these is still standing, the other lies buried by its side.

  • He set up two obelisks before the temple of Luxor; one is still standing, but the other was transported to Paris about forty years ago.

  • One, still standing, is about one hundred feet high, and is the second highest obelisk in the world.

  • A portion of the aqueduct which supplied the water is still standing.

  • Sebastiano), where an arch of travertine, adorned with white marble and pillars of various colours (still standing) was employed to convey the aqueduct over the road.

  • Four columns and two piers are still standing of the inner row; of the outside only two columns remain, in addition to the two piers.

  • This screen, which is still standing, is probably not older than the sixteenth century.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    exclaimed the; head chief; long history; should bear; should first; still alive; still another; still better; still continues; still earlier; still have; still holds; still hunting; still kept; still laughing; still living; still loved; still more; still possess; still possible; still retained; still shown; still smaller; still speaking; still the; still tongue