stand on

Example Sentences

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We returned to the same glacier two or three times a year, and it’s always very depressing to be able to stand on a location where the year before there was still more than 10 meters of ice.

From Slate

He and Latham combined for a 323-run opening stand on day one of the third Test against the West Indies in Mount Maunganui, on Thursday.

From Barron's

The 48-year-old then became an extreme sports athlete and TV presenter, as well as the first person ever to climb the highest mountain on each of the world's seven continents and stand on all three poles within the same calendar year.

From BBC

Speaking on the current comedy climate, Hoffman says, “You can say whatever you want, but be prepared to stand on what you said. Maybe somebody doesn’t like what you said — hell, I’ve experienced that. You can say what you want, but so can other people.”

From Los Angeles Times

From the attempted coup to save the Soviet Union to Yeltsin’s iconic stand on the top of a tank to the Kremlin’s hammer-and-sickle flag being lowered on Christmas Day 1991, Mr. Zygar’s account of the 20th century’s most exhilarating moment, next only to the defeat of Nazi Germany, is a coherent, fast-moving and absorbing tale.

From The Wall Street Journal