How To Use Stand still In A Sentence
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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Weather doesn't stand still and we must learn to be fleet of foot.
The Sun
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With a temporary respite from timetables, regular classes, special classes, tests and homework, time seems to stand still at last.
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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She wouldn't stand still, trying to eavesdrop, so my Aunt suggested they go for a drive to stickybeak at my mum's new house.
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She wished wistfully for a warm summer on a Californian beach where her skin burned as easily as toast and time seemed to stand still.
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Not one to stand still, he is determined to raise his game to a new level.
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Consider the fact that a rider can stand still on its platform, supported only by two wheels on either side, and not roll off in either direction.
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The wind stopped whistling through the trees, the birds stopped singing, and time seemed to just stand still.
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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Weather doesn't stand still and we must learn to be fleet of foot.
The Sun
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road -- "a dry road, Emma my dear," my poor Lirriper says to me, "where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma" -- and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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Stand still and listen to me.
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He carries himself like a street reporter, ready to move fast or stand still for hours, and squirms at any attention others give to the man holding the pen.
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The photographer asked all the guests to stand still and pose for the wedding photograph.
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Stand still there, otherwise I'll shoot.
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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They are running harder to stand still, having been hit by a triple whammy of big changes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not until the scherzo 's trio did time seem to stand still in a meditative haze of dance recalled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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Seems like a lot of effort just to stand still.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also kept wobbling back and forth, like he couldn't stand still.
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This stand still had more summery stuff: peppers, fairy-tale eggplant, fingerling potatoes, summer squash:
Boulder farmers’ market « paper fruit
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If she did stand still, would the laurel wreath be hers?
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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And while they battled, the sun stood still. solstice is derived from the Latin word sol, which means sun, and sistere, which means to stand still.
Regency Christmas Tradtions: The Origins of Christmas
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Stand still a moment , while I straighten your collar.
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In fact, the hands of the clock above the mirrored bar stand still, encouraging you to linger.
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In a course of earnest intellectual work, the pupil must too often, with his present aids, become aware of absence of comprehension; he is ever and anon brought to stand still and cast about for the unsupplied preliminary facts and truths, for the unhinted hypotheses and inferences, which his situation and previous study do not enable him to supply, but which are necessary to a _comprehension_ of the results set down for him to deal with.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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These animals may also be captured without aid of gin or caltrop, by sheer coursing in hot summer time; they get so tired, they will stand still to be shot down.
On Hunting
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A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still.
Anne of Green Gables
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Mere, you are like to stand still on the shoar and see sport, if there be any store of Pikes; or these live baits may make sport, being tied about the body or wings of a
The Compleat Angler
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Attempting to get a dog to stand still on scales in the vets is a skill indeed! ssheppard: A txt message from Alan to let me know our mermaid swam her first width of the pool unaided today, makes for a very proud mummy. ssheppard: Tiredness has set in after a late night out on a school night. ssheppard: Driving home from Brighton after seeing Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds! ssheppard: Looking forward to a weekend with friends and family! ssheppard: Last email sent for week.
March « 2009 « Samantha Sheppard
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If she did stand still, would the laurel wreath be hers?
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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Between their inability to stand still and overactive imagination, it was a very exhausting and entertaining time.
The Sun
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Stand still while I take your photo.
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The police burst in and told everyone to stand still.
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Stand still there, otherwise I'll shoot.
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When I clap my hands, you must stand still, " said the teacher.
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Stand still while I take your photograph.
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I'm not sure what happened, but a combination of terribly unsexy events brought the site to a stand still.
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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We may stand, and "_stand still_," on very dangerous ground.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
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No one told you to move, you great lump! Stand still!
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Not until the scherzo's trio did time seem to stand still in a meditative haze of dance recalled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seems like a lot of effort just to stand still.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dolokhov was a long time mounting his horse which would not stand still, then he rode out of the yard at a footpace.
War and Peace
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Stand still long enough and you'll likely become part of the landscape yourself, quickly covered with the rampant ivy creeper that drapes itself like an emerald dustsheet over every untended acre.
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If we did this, our cities would stand still, ossify and die.
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a third stands quietly until his lading is nearly completed, and then suddenly starts and flounces until he throws every thing off, a fourth at the same interesting point stamps upon your foot, breaks away, and scampers off into the prairie, strewing the way with his burden, a fifth refuses to be loaded at all, and a sixth to stand still, be led or driven.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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When I clap my hands, you must stand still, " said the teacher.
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Stand still there, otherwise I'll shoot.
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But does your foolish old hen suppose that this entire cavalcade, which is bound on an important adventure, is going to stand still while she lays her egg?" enquired the Tin Woodman, earnestly.
Ozma of Oz
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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The police burst in and told everyone to stand still.
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There are other men who stand still higher on the "rolls of fame," whose Diacatholicons never vary, whatever be the name or nature of the disease!
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As the train came to a near stand still, passengers say they heard loud bangs coming from underneath the train.
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While there, we looked down into the street beneath, and saw a photographist preparing to take a view of the castle, and calling out to some little girl in some niche or on some pinnacle of the walls to stand still that he might catch her figure and face.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
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Patients may complain of an inability to sit or stand still, or a compulsion to pace or cross and uncross their legs.
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And then the carts with their array of pastry to make the heart stand still.
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New business Public relations consultancies no more want to stand still than any other business enterprise.
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A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still.
Anne of Green Gables
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Never a group to stand still, the theatre company are currently rehearsing a new play to be launched next year and are also helping out a local charity in the process.
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Verily, to such measure and ticktack, it liketh neither to dance nor to stand still.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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Stand still while I take your photo.
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Dogs, when constipated, will search for and devour the long, lanceolate blades of couch-grass (_Triticum repens_); horses and mules, when they have "scours," eat clay; cattle with the "scratches" have been seen to plaster hoof and joint with mud, and then stand still until the healing coating dried out and became firm; and elephants have been known, time and again, to plug up shot holes in their bodies with moistened earth. [
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
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There comes a moment in the development of a team when it cannot stand still.
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She puts her head right in the hackamore but won't stand still for the bit.
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How this imaginative and commercially successful development was allowed to stand still, indeed to ossify, in the hands of its originator is one of the most remarkable stories of industrial history.
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We were trained never to stand still when we were out on patrol.
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If you are having trouble taking the plunge, remember that relationships cannot stand still.
Times, Sunday Times
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An eyewitness reports that the ground moves in vast waves while the stars seem to stand still.
Times, Sunday Times
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Simply for these numbers to stand still, 25-30 per cent of the population must be culled each year.
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When I clap my hands, you must stand still, " said the teacher.
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But they had run awfully hard to stand still.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her own horse surged forward with the other chargers, but with a great effort of will, she managed to reign him in, though he refused to stand still while the other horses sped on ahead of him.
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Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
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A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still.
Anne of Green Gables
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Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you -- The burden of this faithful and uncompromising address was to show them, that though they had obtained the change of government they had so importunely desired, their conduct was highly displeasing to their heavenly King; nevertheless, if they remained faithful to Him and to the principles of the theocracy, they might be delivered from many of the evils to which the new state of things would expose them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Time seems to stand still in the chorales, which are sung by the Harvard and Radcliffe groups with an honesty that precludes boredom and concerns about stylistic refinement.
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Let the lead performers stay downstage facing the audience, tell the chorus to stand still, don't try anything clever and just get on with the singing.
