Stand-still Sentence Examples

She obliged and he led her across the barn, telling her to stand still for a minute.

It won't hurt if you'd stand still.

Out of these have grown large factories, employing as many as 10,000 to 12,000 men each; but when harvest comes round, these men leave the factories and repair to their fields, and meantime the factories stand still for two or three months.

So exercised was the mind of the religious world over the dispute that in July 1717 as many as seventy-four pamphlets made their appearance; and at one period the crisis became so serious that the business of London was for some days virtually at a stand-still.

But empires move, though rulers bid them stand still.

When the cones are pressed together or engaged, their friction causes the pulley to rotate along with the shaft; when they are disengaged, the pulley is free to stand still.

Well, big whoop, mate, you can stand still.

Life did not stand still and it was necessary to live.

To exhibit, your dog must be able to walk on a lead/leash, and stand still for the judge to do a hands-on examination in an effort to determine how close he/she is to the AKC standard of perfection for your breed.

To decrease it you have to seek medical treatment or stand still.

It is best to stand still if at all possible, with feet together and arms against the chest; most dogs will lose interest in an object that is not moving and will eventually go away.

The only challenge really is finding a model that can stand still and not have a time limit.

For children who are in and out of the water, and/or don't want to stand still long enough to have sunscreen re-applied, a sun-suit of this type can be one of the safest forms of swimwear around.

Spying this type of disorder causes the sign's equilibrium to go completely out of whack, and the native might feel so overwhelmed by the disarray that she may literally have to stand still for a moment and catch her breath.

These guys had the post rock thing down to a science - music for people who stand still at gigs, stroking their chins, but yet it was never cold or distant.