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Example sentences for "stood like"

  • He stood like a sturdy sentinel on guard before his client, pleading the "higher law" in justification, and mercilessly attacking the counsel on the other side whenever they sought to introduce damaging evidence.

  • Boz" was the lion of the evening, and he stood like Patience on a monument.

  • He stood like a statue in bronze or stone,-- Not a muscle moved, and the braves looked on.

  • He stood like a statue in bronze or stone-- Not a muscle moved, and the braves looked on.

  • He shut the cabinet door; the flashlight went out; and he stood like a man stunned, the sense of some abysmal disaster upon him.

  • And in that same breath with which shock and pity came to him, David knew that it was accident and not birth that had malformed the great body that stood like a crouching animal in the open door.

  • I know how it must have shocked you when he stood like that in the door.

  • But to the eye, in size alone, he stood like a boy before St. Pierre.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another stewpan; brick building; certain regions; editorial article; inaugural address; its being; many hours; not remember; perfect hail; properly managed; said the young major; sixth part; stood away; stood before; stood gazing; stood listening; stood motionless; stood over; stood quite; stood ready; stood staring; stood stock; stood there; stood thus; successful attack; whome they