How to Use grandstand in a Sentence

grandstand

1 of 2 noun
  • When the drivers stride out, the grandstand leaps up.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Be a part of all the high-speed action with a pair of grandstand seats.
    — The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
  • For those who grew up beneath the grandstand lights, these fairs are not just events.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The race started to our left and finished in front of the grandstand.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
  • There is a small grandstand across the pits, just beyond the start finish line.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2023
  • The starting gate was in the backstretch chute, rather than in front of the grandstand.
    — Stephen Edelson, azcentral, 20 June 2020
  • There wasn’t any piece of the grandstands or any patch of grass that wasn’t covered in people.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
  • The Kansas City fans got back on their feet in the grandstand.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Fans booed as the horses returned to the grandstand after the race.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The best spot to watch the fireworks is from the grandstands at La Ronde.
    — Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • With the massive grandstand gone, there is little left of the former track.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
  • The Beavers hoped to have permanent grandstands in place this spring.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 May 2023
  • This year, the neighborhood city hall provides a small grandstand on one side of the court.
    — Catherine Porter James Hill, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Up in the grandstand, Cian and his family found some seats for the rest of the races.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The one-tier grandstand surrounds the entire field and there is simply not a bad seat in the house.
    — Bobby Sullivan, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The trailer was just behind the grandstands on the 18th hole.
    — Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
  • From the backside workouts to the grandstand, a look at Louisville's day at the track.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2018
  • There were audible gasps from the grandstand at the bottom of the course as fans watched on the big screen.
    — Steve Douglas, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
  • Otherwise, the place has cleared out — from its vast parking lots to the grandstands to the grass oval.
    — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
  • Those who wish to stretch their legs have lots of space to do that on the concourse that spans the grandstand from foul pole to foul pole.
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Okay, maybe that's not a fair claim; the all-women group seems to be enjoying their time in the grandstands.
    — Justin Kirkland, Esquire, 11 Feb. 2018
  • And while Ducey is free to grandstand, Lord is free to consider jobs.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2019
  • Members of the press clustered at the fence, pads in hand, as the grandstand churned with an overflow crowd yet again.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The grandstands are sold out, meaning local blackout of the race has been lifted.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Unlike the sprint races, which end near the grandstand north of the festival area, the head races run the whole course.
    — Shannon Eblen, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • On Wednesday, Blaney will join fans in the grandstand for a pizza lunch.
    — John Henry, star-telegram, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Rain helped fill seats in the grandstand building at the horse racing track where the festival is held.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • With the crowd in the grandstand watching mostly in silence, paramedics at the track soon arrived.
    — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2019
  • Get a spot in the grandstand to check out the putting on the 4th hole green and the driving from the 5th hole tee box.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 25 May 2018
  • The Air sign likes to advise those in need, and will get up on their high horse and grandstand so their views can be heard.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025

grandstand

2 of 2 verb
  • What happened was not your cousin’s fault; the fault lies with her grandstanding brother.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Goodwin is a tall, smart, look-at-me type with a line of grandstanding rock ’n’ roll patter.
    — Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
  • This one will be too close for Dabo to call grandstanding timeouts in the final minutes.
    — Jay Boozell, ajc, 21 Nov. 2017
  • Egerton, by contrast, gets to grandstand a bit more flamboyantly.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The Mayor was grandstanding—this was what people were saying.
    — Mark Singer, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Several said his plan was short-sighted and an attempt to grandstand on an issue that has frustrated the city for years.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The court took issue with his lawyers essentially grandstanding in the complaint.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That leaves an opportunity for one of the other four to grandstand by voting no and then playing to the press afterward.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • As is often the case with high-profile, or celebrity indictments and arrests, there are some theatrics and grandstanding here.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And then grandstanding politicians decided to get involved.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Ensuing texts and phone calls indicated that my cousin’s older brother had grandstanded and taken over.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • One result will be a diminution of candor, and a commensurate increase in grandstanding and playing to the public back home.
    — Jonathan Rauch, Time, 19 May 2017
  • Lawmakers fumed and grandstanded, but didn't reconvene to overturn his vetoes.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
  • Prosecutors, however, have asked the judge to bar Pawlowski from grandstanding on his record in office.
    — Philly.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • And they are treated as mentally imbalanced or grandstanding accusers.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Yes, in all likelihood your colleague probably is grandstanding because that’s one of the ways ambitious people get heard.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This year, grandstands around Turn 1 were removed and replaced with a high-end campground, the Turn 1 Resort.
    — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2018
  • Pete Mackanin stood at home plate in 1980 and watched his fly ball soar towards the Fenway Park grandstands.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • But Everett doesn’t grandstand about self-esteem or standards of beauty, as many of her contemporaries do; her ease in her own skin is liberation enough.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Using local law enforcement as a punching bag to grandstand against the federal government should not be an acceptable practice from our state leaders.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Where Krick is busy grandstanding, the darling of his men and superiors, the ever unpopular Stagg urges caution.
    — Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 29 May 2026
  • The goal is to de-politicize the process and get to the truth, instead of grandstanding and giving senators an opportunity to launch their presidential campaigns.
    — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Trump, argued Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham, grandstands over a border crisis that does not exist (see his chart below).
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
  • Or is California simply grandstanding by picking a fight with a president the state government despises?
    — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • For decades, members of Congress have marked the occasion of raising the ceiling with grandstanding speeches about the other side’s spending priorities.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 13 May 2023
  • An early sequence, in which his tech savviness saves the day during one of Balsillie’s presentations, proves that the geek and the grandstanding salesman are the real match made in heaven.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2023
  • The alternative is not grandstanding or isolation but steady, deliberate agency.
    — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • His willingness to criticize his own party, derail House business and risk a debt default in pursuit of conservative policies have at times brought charges of grandstanding.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
  • The only people who pretend that spending and borrowing are two separate decisions are politicians who are trying to grandstand before ignorant voters.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Ghaywan’s script is explicit but never priggish in its moral standing, letting the outstanding performances drive home the perils of bigotry more than any grandstanding dialogue.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025

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