VERB
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stay clear of, avoid
Keep your hands off my wife!
Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous -
stand away from an object or person
He stood back to look at her
How To Use stand back In A Sentence
- When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
- Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence. Times, Sunday Times
- Would you please stand back and let me through.
- Light fuse, stand back. Times, Sunday Times
- Stand back and look objectively at the problem.
- Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence. Times, Sunday Times
- For example if two people stand back-to-back in an open field with no large objects to reflect or diffract the sound waves, they can still hold a conversation. Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars
- Speaking of words and meanings, I understand that the proper way to greet an Aussie is āstand back, I have a gun.ā Cheeseburger Gothic » Because iām hell busy.
- If I'm really evil, might I not stand back and *not* heal a party member so that I can loot a "friend's" backpack? Lights Going Out in the Anti-RMT Bunker
- Instead I was down the front - although not that near; the stage was about twelve feet high so you had to stand back to see anything - engaging in activities known in the modern parlance, I believe, as 'moshing'. Country of the Blind
