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be loyal to
She stood by her husband in times of trouble
The friends stuck together through the war - be available or ready for a certain function or service
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not act or do anything
He just stood by when the police beat up the demonstrators
How To Use stand by In A Sentence
- I long for the Monday nights before he came along when the second I got hungry I could stand by the kitchen TV watching "The Bachelorette," while whumping down a salade nicoise. Susan Orlins: Dating After Divorce: What if I Meet a Guy I Like?
- I stand by the statement I made earlier - there is no reason for the minister to resign.
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
- He put his gittern into the stand by touch and knelt to blow the fire to flame. Oathblood
- What Anvilhead supports is Bush, and bush has cost your country so anvilhead stand by your president as your doing and watch your country diminish into a third world countryand good cause the rest of the world is sick of america Think Progress » ‘This isn’t about the intel anymore.’
- She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
- A hunter-gatherer couple stand by an uprooted tree. Times, Sunday Times
- So I stand by it as a testable hypothesis.
- Or stand by to rescue you from fire and terror and stroke and dodgy drains. Times, Sunday Times
- I stand by the statement I made earlier - there is no reason for the minister to resign.