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Example sentences for stand up
Your argument doesn't stand up when you look at the poorer nations.
But when it failed to stand up to scrutiny, confusion-and eventually outrage-ensued.
Have students stand up and begin making their whale calls softly.
The boots made legs and feet feel heavy, encased, obliging then wearer to stand up straight.
His coat is so laden with tokens of distinction that it looks as if it could stand up by itself.
She's built her brand on her willingness to stand up to him.
Still, you can also move faster and get farther if you stand up.
Considering the potential stakes, it's worth being skeptical of claims to make sure that they stand up to rigor.
We have become soft as humans by not taking the time to stand up for what is right.
The codices wouldn't stand up as scientific evidence.
There are always some times when you must stand up for your rights.
It also mandates that only manufacturers need to determine if a supplement can stand up to claims made about its benefits.
Yet the more fundamental argument that armed drones somehow breach the laws of war does not, at present, stand up.
Be systematic and organized, stand up, and speak more loudly than you usually do.
When they tire of singing they stand up and dance gaily in a ring till evening.
They stand up as they do so, but take their own sweet time about it.
Nobody has the wit or gumption to stand up and lift the stylus.
UL also tests the products' capacity to stand up to the rigors of home use.
Whether his rise to stardom proves short-lived will depend largely on whether his allegations stand up.
When the music stops, the students in the inner ring stand up and rotate to the next partner.
The fleas would stand up on the fibers, arm their legs and track my optical angle.
But the gold standard also has to stand up and take a bow.
It's too loud to talk or sleep, shakes too much to do work, and somebody yells at you if you stand up.
But these are simplistic arguments you offer that hardly stand up to close scrutiny.
Nor does the argument about dangerous irredentism stand up.
The idea that a building's walls will stand up seems as safe a bet as gravity's pull or the sun's rising.
The problem was that it didn't stand up well to tension or shearing.
She always finds a way to stand up and to decide what she wants to do and what kind of life she wants to live and she lives it.
When servers are not busy, they should stand up straight and reside quietly in their sections.
So remove the blinkers, stand up for my right to express my views.
The contraction also causes the hair to stand up whenever the body feels cold.
Not when he was so sick from chemotherapy that he couldn't stand up.
But those ideas are often rejected because the creative innovator must stand up to vested interests and defy the crowd.
He then made me stand up-a rather shaky thing for me-then sit in his chair and take my shoes off.
If he feels and he may have indeed a point that someone has snatched his work, he should stand up and say so.
If people stand up holding coffee, they won't bring their lap tops and stay for eight hours.
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