stand-in

How to use stand-in in a sentence

When yuh get good and refreshed up, you can come and look on at me and Irish acting pretty and getting a stand-in.

Was that the height of the Governor himself or the Governor's stand-in?

WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

What was the adjusted frame for the first view that the marksman had of the President's stand-in coming out from under the tree?

WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

Distance from the chalk mark on the back of the stand-in for the President to the station C is 136.6 feet.

WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

From the rifle to the chalk mark on the back of the stand-in for the President.

WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

And was the stand-in obstructed by the windshield at anytime as the car drove down Elm Street?

WARREN COMMISSION (5 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. V (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

The duties of a stand-in for a God like that sounded just a little bit overwhelming.

PAGAN PASSIONSGORDON RANDALL GARRETT

The wind heading us, we had to stand in-shore, so as to beat up towards Kingston.

OLD JACKW.H.G. KINGSTON

He can speak English as well as I can, but he thinks bad grammar will give him a stand-in with the frontiersmen.

Again the world rumbled, and they travelled into a country to a place called Where-tree-boles-stand-in-the-midst-of-waters.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985