How to Use stand around in a Sentence

stand around

verb
  • Then, there’s a group who wants to stand around and fight.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • But even football games are mostly spent standing around.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Palace maids stand around a plump woman, struggling to fasten a black belt sash around her waist.
    — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • There’s a lot of standing around, but Sophia has only one gear, and that’s top gear.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • No standing around pushing produce down a chute one carrot at a time.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There's a hundred people standing around you.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • Players stood around watching instead of trying to get open.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
  • To avoid overeating at a party, don’t stand around the food table while talking with friends.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Volume stood around 35 million.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But they’re done riding, so the donkeys are just all standing around together.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But they’re done riding, so the donkeys are just all standing around together.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Kicker Blake Craig stood around the 10-yard line, drilling try after try.
    — Lilly Marshall, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
  • With his family standing around him and both hands occupied, there was no way to safely draw his weapon.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the rare snap, Wilkinson and her daughter stood around the same height while Hank towered over the two.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
  • He’s described as a man in his 30s, standing around 5-foot-7, with a goatee.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
  • So many of them just stood around Madison Square Garden, on the court and in the stands right beside it.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • There’s no covering that up at a BBQ full of people standing around a hot grill.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Players piled onto the couches in the middle of the room, while others stood around with their eyes fixed on the television.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Drinking is a ritual often centered around holding a cold can while standing around a grill or sitting at a bar.
    — William Jones, Ascend Agency, 27 Feb. 2026
  • No one was standing around excited about 27 Dresses.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2026
  • McVay stood in the visitors locker room after the game and looked at the faces of the players standing around him.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2026
  • There was no bass thumping on Saturday, no one standing around having a catch and doing minimal work.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • He is described as standing around 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall with a medium build.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In one, the siblings can be seen standing around their mom, who holds their Guinness World Record certificate.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • To stand around collecting a paycheck when the ones who deserve the money are TSA agents who know what the job entails?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Troopers arrived on the scene to find multiple cars stopped along the freeway and people standing around the woman who was severely injured.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 29 Mar. 2026
  • On a recent Friday, behind a cobalt-blue one, several stood around the kitchen of an East Side brownstone, ready to cook.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The lowest branch should stand around 18 inches above the ground, with about 6 inches in height between subsequent scaffold branches.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • Specialist teams came to retrieve the body and decontaminate the roadside, while his family members stood around and wept.
    — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 15 June 2026
  • Later in the video, officers deploy chemical irritants in the street as a number of other people shout, honk their horns or stand around filming the scene on their phones.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026

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