How To Use Stand back In A Sentence
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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.
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Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would you please stand back and let me through.
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Light fuse, stand back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stand back and look objectively at the problem.
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Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Speaking of words and meanings, I understand that the proper way to greet an Aussie is “stand back, I have a gun.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Because i’m hell busy.
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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
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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
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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Stand back and allow destiny's exquisite plan to unfold, in ways as elegant as they are unexpected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Billy's stammering voice called pleadingly, 'St-stand back, ca-can't you, and gi-give him air.'
Tracy Park
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The Metropolitan police choose to stand back from the protest until one group of protesters attacks the fast food restaurant and daubs slogans on the Cenotaph.
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It needs to put the music in a setting, to stand back and look at the larger context.
Christianity Today
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Would you please stand back and let me through.
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We were forced to stand back and let the crisis play itself out.
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It is very difficult, I think, for those who draft the document at the end of the process to stand back and reread it with the eyes of the judges who will come to it completely afresh.
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Stand back or one of his horseshoes is going to hit you and knock you down real good, Jeb said.
Faux Faulkner
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So we shall briefly stand back and assess its significance.
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Stand back 20 yds false cast let it settle damn fly never gets in the hole, .. line ices up fingers feeze nevr cath any perch,. .evrything goes wrong.
Suburban Winter Blues
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It would have been very difficult for me to stand back and give them that opportunity without this.
Times, Sunday Times
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A good resolution before you exchange contracts would be to stand back and have a really long look at the wood!
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Quite often in mainstream schools, classroom assistants and teachers can do too much for a child – known as the Velcro effect – when in reality it might be better to stand back and observe from a distance and support the child in a different way.
Outstanding team: 'they will influence policy'
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Equally, if you're struck down by the lurgi, then stand back rather than risk spreading your germs.
Jo Bryant: The 12 Rules of a Well-Mannered Christmas
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Hellstew. Stand back and watch a crackerjack chef at work.
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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You either bang the hell out of the ball or you stand back and absorb it.
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So light the blue touchpaper and stand back and enjoy this sizzling side ...
The Sun
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Would you please stand back and let me through.
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He says you must stand back and look at the tree from a distance to get an idea how tall it is.
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We editors stand back and watch, always fascinated to see what gets entered and what gets chosen.
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Would you please stand back and let me through.
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That's why, dare I say, the anchorperson has always got to stand back, even at the risk of seeming a little cold-blooded at times, so as not to impose our emotions on others.
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So light the blue touchpaper and stand back and enjoy this sizzling side ...
The Sun
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Would you please stand back and let me through.
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We were forced to stand back and let the crisis play itself out.
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It would have been very difficult for me to stand back and give them that opportunity without this.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's helpful to stand back from the ball and survey the terrain before you put your peg in the ground.
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Would you please stand back and let me through.
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The mistake City made when Nani's cross took a deflection to hang invitingly in the air behind Rooney was to stand back and admire his technique.
Liverpool revival under Kenny Dalglish puts the heat on Alex Ferguson | Paul Wilson
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He says you must stand back and look at the tree from a distance to get an idea how tall it is.
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Light fuse, stand back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stand back and scratch me bonce, £425 for this, is that right?
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I've always pontificated loudly that I hate passive heroes, those who sit/stand back and let things happen to them.
Don't Take This Lying Down
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Stand back, everybody, I feel a new word coinage coming on.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [148] -- Aliens Landing?
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Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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He knew that if he could just stand back a little he could apply his peculiarly deterministic volition to the problem.
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Give them a skateboard or a pogo stick, provide them with a helmet and protective padding and stand back.
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Both then stand back and watch with the intensity of students observing an origami master.
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I understand back during Prohibition lots of men used to swill it down by the jugful.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Betty's job was to stand backstage and cue the actors.
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So we shall briefly stand back and assess its significance.
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The policeman ordered us to stand back.
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We were forced to stand back and let the crisis play itself out.
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As a group they would stand back, observe the machine's output and then discuss minute adjustments to be executed with a screwdriver.
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Surely we can't just stand back and let this happen?
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I suggest you stand back and take a good hard look at yourselves.
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Surely we can't just stand back and let this happen?
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Stand back when you light it or you'll have singed eyebrows.
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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Last April, the Horn Book Blog did its usual "pour trail of gunpowder, light match, stand back and look thoughtful" thing and made a statement about the "squishiness" in children's book reviewing.
Archive 2008-07-01
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One system uses a peristaltic pump which, although very accurate, can not withstand back pressure.
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So we shall briefly stand back and assess its significance.
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Stand back and look objectively at the problem.
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Stand back to allow the procession to pass.
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And so the state respects our self-determination not by enabling us to stand back from our social roles, but by encouraging a deeper immersion in and understanding of them, as the politics of the common good seeks to accomplish.
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Stand back, let the dust settle, and follow your favourite managers to their next berth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stand back, let the dust settle, and follow your favourite managers to their next berth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence.
Times, Sunday Times
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A special form of frot called "rump rubbing" occurs to express reconciliation between two males after a conflict, where they stand back-to-back and rub their scrotal sacs together.
NEW HELLBOY POSTER LESS ANDROGYNOUS
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Stand back and allow destiny's exquisite plan to unfold, in ways as elegant as they are unexpected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our traditions must be well disposed, that is able to stand back wisely from even the appearance of excessive mythicism in their own tradition.
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He would stand back and admire.
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The two wooden chairs, shaped like wedges of Swiss cheese with the mandatory holes, stand back-to-back in comfortable affinity.
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But when we finish and stand back, it's impossible to understand what we're seeing.
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Stand back to allow the procession to pass.
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DADEVILLE, ALA. The elephant with a head cold is a staple of kiddle lit, featured in at least three children's books ( "'Stand Back,' Said the Elephant, 'I'm Going to Sneeze!'
Ask Tip Sheet
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Stand back, Massa Jack! this lady good missee, and me no see her hurt.
Obi Melodrama Act II, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
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Stand back to allow the procession to pass.
