Standing-in Sentence Examples

That evening Alex and Dulce were standing in the entrance room.

Carmen followed her gaze and was surprised to find Señor Medena standing in the doorway.

Only Nick noticed her standing in the door.

Tammy and Sarah were in the kitchen when she returned, and Tammy was standing in a chair ripping the cover off some chocolate chip cookies.

Yancey was standing in the door watching.

That was when she noticed Claudette standing in the kitchen doorway.

Cade was standing in the doorway, coffee mug in hand.

The characters were as tangible as all of us standing in this room.

Molly asked from where she was standing in the doorway, holding a raft of papers.

He withdrew, not looking at the shocked man standing in the kitchen doorway.

Dusty braced himself and turned to face the grandfatherly figure with a smile and emerald eyes standing in the corner.

Jule's opponent was standing in her headlights, staring at her, while Jule's body rolled to a stop a few feet away.

The instincts that warned her Jonny wasn't as naïve as he seemed were confirmed when she stepped into the gym and saw Xander standing in the doorway, watching her.

It was like standing in front of a bonfire.

The middle-aged man with bright green eyes standing in his study looked harmless.

Deidre asked, standing in alarm.

Because there's nobody standing in front of this desk screaming at me to do something, that's why.

When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

For a moment he was certain the familiar voice of a woman was a memory, perhaps brought on by standing in Deidre's apartment.

The issue came to a head one day when he was standing in the living room signing with Jonathan.

The man standing in the weedy area of the lot was tall and thick, dressed in a trench coat, black clothing and heavy boots.

Dazed, she was surprised to find they were standing in the bedroom of the bungalow.

He'd been standing in the brush.

The clingy cold of the shadow world disappeared, and she was left standing in the middle of her apartment.

Deidre turned to see the blonde woman standing in front of an open wardrobe.

She whipped around to see Kris standing in the doorway, holding the door open as if debating whether to enter.

He could look straight into the courtyard of the men.s wing, and the furious Daniela standing in the middle staring at him.

She felt silly standing in it with the three warrior strangers around her, waiting for something to happen that never did.

It wasn't right to leave him standing in the sun all day!

Kiera rose and turned away, wondering how her friend was so clueless while standing in front of her painting of A'Ran.

I'm Annie, standing in my parlor, a hundred years ago.

Dean brushed off a white cloud of flour and greeted a well-dressed, good-looking man in his late forties standing in the hall.

She had reached the hall before she turned and saw the tall man standing in the doorway.

When Dean rushed into Bird Song, Cynthia was standing in the hall, the phone at her ear.

Maybe some people sense that sort of thing more than others—that feeling you get when you're standing in a spot where you know something really dramatic occurred.

The doorbell demanded his attention and he answered the door to find a tall young man standing in the hallway.

She was standing in the middle of the dairy, scowling, when he emerged from the barn.

In fact, standing in her apartment, she had the surreal sense that life hadn't changed, as if she could open the door and go to work like any other day.

Gabriel cursed under his breath.  He had no way of knowing what kind of test a deity like Death could create, but it wasn't likely to be good.  While he had full faith in Rhyn, he also knew better than to trust the petite woman in white standing in his dream.

Fear made Rhyn's chest seize.  No sooner had Gabe spoken the words than the demons fell away.  Coldness snapped over Rhyn, and his surroundings blurred.  He blinked, uncertain what happened until he found himself standing in a dimly lit chamber.  Kris and Gabe were still beside him, and instead of demons, there was only Death.

He was standing in front of the mirror in his jeans and an athletic undershirt, shaving with a disposable razor.

A long wobbly form was standing in the fresh hay.

Alex was standing in the doorway, watching her.

One morning, while Carmen was cleaning the house, he caught her standing in the living room, confronting the recliner with a questionable amount of courage.

She stopped and stepped back into the hallway, too preoccupied to notice Jonny standing in front of his door.

Do you think it would be any brighter standing in your shadow than my father's?

You see houses a hundred years old standing in areas where tornadoes occur a number of times a year.

Jessi waited to see if she'd wake up instead of standing in the hallway, being threatened by a kid a little older than Brandon.

You're standing in a vampire's house, and you want to know what's on my shirt.

She felt like she was at the zoo, standing in front of the cage of a hungry lion.

Held against his body, she couldn't imagine she had, but she was still standing in the kitchen.

They weren't standing in the hallway anymore.

A peek over her shoulder revealed him standing in the middle of the room, under the light.

The party therefore determined that they would refuse to support any person standing in the Labour interests who refused to pledge himself to vote on all occasions in such way as the majority of the party might decide to be expedient.

The spreading branches have a tendency to assume a tortuous form, owing to the central shoots becoming abortive, and the growth thus being continued laterally, causing a zigzag development, more exaggerated in old trees and those standing in From Kotschy, op. cit.

There is a small government house, standing in beautiful grounds, adjoining Albert Park, with plantations of oaks and pines.

The direct geographical elements are the arrangement of land and sea (continents and islands standing in sharp contrast) and the vertical relief of the globe, which interposes barriers of a less absolute kind between portions of the same land area or oceanic depression.

The tree under which the first explorers encamped here in November 1824 is still standing in an enclosed space.

At stations on double-track railways which have a heavy traffic four tracks are sometimes provided, the two outside ones only having platforms, so that fast trains get a clear road and can pass slow ones that are standing in the station.

It represented the goddess, standing in the stiff archaic style, holding a spear in her right hand, in her left a distaff and spindle or a shield.

Here is Badminton House, the seat of the dukes of Beaufort, standing in a park some io m.

Reinach (Revue archeologique, 1903), Tantalus was represented in a picture standing in a lake and clinging to the branches of a tree, which gave rise to the idea that he was endeavouring to pluck its fruit.

The ducal palace, standing in extensive grounds, contains a collection of historical curiosities and a gallery of pictures, which includes works by Cimabue, Lippi,Rubens,Titian and Van Dyck.

The inconsistencies between the real and the epic Guillaume are often left standing in the poems. The personages associated with Guillaume in his Spanish wars belong to Provence, and have names common in the south.

The whole series was evidently deposited in shallow water on the summit of a submarine volcano standing in its present isolation, and round which the ocean floor has probably altered but a few hundred feet since the Eocene age.

The name (Sp. "tall tree") was derived from a solitary redwood-tree standing in the outskirts of the city.

Astronomy was of old standing in Babylonia, and the standard work on the subject, written from an astrological point of view, which was translated into Greek by Berossus, was believed to go back to the age of Sargon of Akkad.

The apocalyptic writer on the other hand despairs of the present, and directs his hopes absolutely to the future, to a new world standing in essential opposition to the present.

In the period that followed, the reign of Charlemagne and the later Carolingian age, continued necessities, military and civil, forced the kings to recognize these new institutions more fully, even when standing in a position between the government and the subject, intercepting the public duties of the latter.

Amongst the finest of his classical pictures were - "Syracusan Bride leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Temple of Diana" (1866), "Venus disrobing for the Bath" (1867), "Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon," and "Helios and Rhodos" (1869), "Hercules wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis" (1871), "Clytemnestra" (1874), "The Daphnephoria" (1876), "Nausicaa" (1878), "An Idyll" (1881), two lovers under a spreading oak listening to the piping of a shepherd and gazing on the rich plain below; "Phryne" (1882), a nude figure standing in the sun; "Cymon and Iphigenia" (1884), "Captive Andromache" (1888), now in the Manchester Art Gallery; with the "Last Watch of Hero" (1887), "The Bath of Psyche" (1890), now in the Chantrey Bequest collection; "The Garden of the Hesperides" (1892), "Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Return of Persephone," now in the Leeds Gallery (1891); and "Clytie," his last work (1896).

Electroscopes and electrometers, therefore, standing in proximity to electrified bodies can be perfectly shielded from influence by enclosing them in cylinders of metal gauze.

The Prussians, having seen the cavalry whilst yet at a distance, ceased firing, formed their skirmishers into groups, and the closed supports standing in deployed lines, two deep, shattered the cavalry with volleys and file-firing, as with blown and exhausted horses they endeavoured to close with their adversaries.

In art St Nicholas is represented with various attributes, being most commonly depicted with three children standing in a tub by his side.

Although punishment by whipping and by standing in the pillory was prohibited by an act of Congress in 1839, in so far as the Federal government had jurisdiction, both these forms of punishment were retained in Delaware, and standing in the pillory was prescribed by statute as a punishment for a number of offences, including various kinds of larceny and forgery, highway robbery, and even pretending " to exercise the art of witchcraft, fortune-telling or dealing with spirits," at least until 1893.

Here he, first of known English writers, sets forth a doctrine which, while falling short of the Anabaptist theory that the civil ruler has no standing in the affairs of the Church, in that religion is a matter of the individual conscience before God, yet marks a certain advance upon current views.

There is a tendency, moreover, to accord to the conferences the function of determining the tests of ministerial standing in the Congregational denomination.

Male factory hands greatly outnumbered female, standing in the ratio of four to one.

Christians have no standing in the Old Testament prophecies, and their talk of a resurrection that was only revealed to some of their own adherents is foolishness.

It gradually turns yellow on standing in moist air, owing to decomposition with liberation of iodine.

Gnosticism has combined the two, the Greek opposition between spirit and matter, and the sharp Zoroastrian dualism, which, where the Greek mind conceived of a higher and a lower world, saw instead two hostile worlds, standing in contrast to each other like light and darkness.

As rotifers are common in ponds, the first workers with the microscope observed them repeatedly, the first record being that of John Harris in 1696, who found a Bdelloid in a gallipot that had been standing in his window.

They are seldom persons of shining ability or high standing in their communities.

Opening from the western side of the cloister, but actually standing in the outer court, is the refectory (G), a large cruciform building, about loo feet each way, decorated within with frescoes of saints.

A signal proof was soon furnished of the new standing in the empire which federation had given to the Canadian provinces.

When standing in an open space, the larch grows of a nearly conical shape, with the lower branches almost reaching the ground, while those above gradually diminish in length towards the top of the trunk, presenting a very symmetrical form; but in dense woods the lower parts become bare of foliage, as with the firs under similar circumstances.

Some larches in Scotland rival in size the most gigantic specimens standing in their native woods; a tree at Dalwick, Peeblesshire, attained 5 ft.

About 1664 the palace was occupied as a school by Robert Uvedale (1642-1722), who was also an eminent horticulturist, planted the magnificent cedar still standing in the palace grounds, and formed a herbarium now in the Sloane collection at the British Museum.

With regard to the plan and design of a Phoenician temple, it is probable that they were in many respects similar to those of the temple at Jerusalem, and the probability is confirmed by the remains of a sanctuary near Amrit, in which there is a cella standing in the midst of a large court hewn out of the rock, together with other buildings in an Egyptian style.

No fewer than eighteen convents were still standing in 1873.

It retains, however, some of its rural character, and has wide thoroughfares and many handsome residences standing in extensive grounds.

Hence, for the basic process, spare converters must be provided, so that there may always be some of them re-lining, either while standing in the same place as when in use, or, as in Holley's arrangement, in a separate repair house, to which these gigantic vessels are removed bodily.

They are readily converted into the isomeric aminoazo compounds, either by standing in alcoholic solution, or by warming with a mixture of the parent base and its hydrochloride;.

Either we have a right to the assumption contained in the conception of the individual mind as standing in relation to things, in which case the grounds of the assumption must be sought elsewhere than in the results of this reciprocal relation, or we have no right to the assumption, in which case reference to the reciprocal relation can hardly be accepted as yielding any solution of the psychological problem.

Of parks and open spaces there are in the south, Brodie Park (22 acres), presented in 1871 by Robert Brodie; towards the north Fountain Gardens (7a acres), the gift of Thomas Coats and named from the handsome iron fountain standing in the centre; in the north-west, St James Park (40 acres), with a racecourse (racing dates from 1620, when the earl of Abercorn and the Town Council gave silver bells for the prize); Dunn Square and the old quarry grounds converted and adorned; and Moss Plantation beyond the north-western boundary.

Later it appears to have been the site of a bishopric; remains of its churches were still standing in the 14th century.

On the other hand the reverence attached to it in the later periods of the city is evidenced by its being left standing in the midst of a triangular space adjoining the great theatre, which is surrounded by a portico, so as to constitute a kind of forum (the so-called Foro Triangolare).

The most magnificent of the city mosques is that of Sultan Hasan, standing in the immediate vicinity of the citadel.

It has a palace standing in extensive grounds, a gymnasium, a normal seminary, a library, a synagogue, and three churches, one of which has the appropriate inscription, Religionis non structurae exemplum.

According to a Spanish authority of about 1345, the anonymous Franciscan's Conoscimiento de todos los reinos, " Lancarote" was killed by the Canarian natives; but the castle built by him was standing in 1402-1404, when it was utilized for the storage of grain by the French conquerors under Gadifer de la Salle.

Among the public buildings are the academy, Johnstone public school, the county buildings, town-hall, museum, Mackenzie hall and market cross, the lastnamed standing in front of the old court-house, which is now used as a drill hall and fire-station.

In the state campaign of 1859 he made a speech attacking the Fugitive Slave Law and arguing for state's rights and thus injured his political standing in Wisconsin; and in April he delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, an oration on "True Americanism," which coming from an alien was intended to clear the Republican party of the charge of "nativism."

It is a busy thoroughfare, lined in its first half with magnificent new buildings, and in its second half, where it attains a width of 150 ft., with handsome villas standing in their own gardens, which give the impression rather of a fashionable summer resort than the centre of a great city.

The carved totem posts of the Haida, standing in front of the heavily framed houses, or at a little distance from them, represent the coats of arms of the respective families of the tribes and generally exhibit designs treated in a bold and original manner, highly conventionalized but always recognizable in their purport by any one familiar with the distinctive marks of the animal forms portrayed.

They were formed in four deep and close masses ("schiltrons") of pikemen, the light troops screening the front and flanks and a body of men-at-arms standing in reserve.

Muller, daughter-tongues of the old Sabaean and Minaean, standing in the same relation to the speech of the old inscriptions as Coptic does to that of the hieroglyphics.

This first formal appearance as a critic and historian of literature at once gave him a new standing in the community, and was the occasion of his election to the Smith Professorship of Modern Languages in Harvard College, then vacant by the retirement of Longfellow.

Other such communities and " congregations " - semi-monastic bodies standing in closer touch with the world than did the medieval orders - undertook the diffusion of knowledge.

These acts helped greatly to discredit the Moderate party, of whose spirit they were the outcome; and that party further injured their standing in the country by attacking Leslie, afterwards Sir John Leslie, on frivolous grounds - a phrase he had used about Hume's view of causation - when he applied for the chair of mathematics in Edinburgh.

In this way the bodies of more or less nearly perfect animals, often standing in the Rotunda; but few other bones of any description have been found.

Pop. (1897), 4949 It has an imperial castle (1782-1803) standing in a beautiful park and containing a small fine art museum and gallery.

This palace, standing in the very heart of the city, is a huge quadrangular building, with four courts, and is surmounted by a dome 220 ft.

At the present day, then, the Orthodox Eastern Church consists of twelve mutually independent churches (or thirteen if we reckon the Bulgarian Church), using their own language in divine service (or some ancient form of it, as in Russia) and varying not a little in points of detail, but standing in full communion with one another, and united as equals in what has been described as one great ecclesiastical federation.

Meanwhile, it became more and more evident that the Conservative party had no standing in the country.

Enriched by the offerings of his pupils, and feasted with universal admiration, he came, as he says, to think himself the only philosopher standing in the world.

The chapel of the Holy Ghost is a picturesque ruin, standing in an ancient cemetery, built for the use of the local gild of the Holy Ghost which was founded in 1525, but flourished for less than a century.

It possesses medieval fortifications, and no less than twenty-five towers are still standing in various parts of the town, which thus has a remarkably medieval appearance.

As for male workmen they are chiefly tceogs in Wales, that is half-free bondmen with a certain though base standing in law.

The girl Nongkwase, standing in the river where the spirits had first appeared, heard unearthly noises, interpreted by her father as orders to kill more and more cattle.

The surface of the water in the supersaturated soil is known as the "water-table" and is exemplified in water standing in a well.

Japheth is the northern and western division of the nations; being perhaps used as a convenient title under which to group the more remote peoples who were not thought of as standing in ethnic or political connexion with Israel or Egypt.

The Didache bids us " pour water on the head," and Christian pictures and sculptures ranging from the 1st to the 10th century represent the baptizand as standing in the water, while the baptizer pours water from his hand or from a bowl over his head.

His judgments may be held with greater confidence, which is an intellectual advantage; and, standing in his mind not so much an edifice as a natural growth, they cannot be so readily abandoned at the call of ease or self-interest.

The most interesting public monument is the great Lindwurm or Dragon, standing in the principal square (1590).

These machines can only be used where the wheat ripens thoroughly standing in the field.

They found standing in their way the very man who had been the author of their fortunes, Louis XV.s tutor, uneasy in the exercise of a veiled authority; for the churchman Fleury knew how to wait, on condition of ultimately attaining his end.

Airthrey Castle, standing in a fine park with a lake, adjoins the town on the south-east, and just beyond it are the old church and burying-ground of Logie, beautifully situated at the foot of a granite spur of the Ochil range.

If the real system of things, to which conscious experience has reference, be regarded as standing in casual relation to this experience there is no conceivable ground for the extension to reality of the notions which somehow are involved in thought.

But the ultimate conception of understanding, that of the world of objects, quantitatively determined, and standing in relation of mutual reciprocity to one another, is not a final ground of explanation.

Carmen followed her gaze and was surprised to find Señor Medena standing in the doorway.

She twisted to stare at a large, wiry man with a whip-like body and a face that would scare Freddy Krueger standing in the middle of the apartment, her cat in one arm and the litter box in the other.

The instincts that warned her Jonny wasn't as naïve as he seemed were confirmed when she stepped into the gym and saw Xander standing in the doorway, watching her.

He remained standing in the open vehicle, holding on to the roll bar for support, looking like a parade politician as he waved to the strolling women.

When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

That reputation could not possibly help Evelyn's standing in the clan either; the sooner the clan forgot the blemish of a friend, the sooner they'd accept Evelyn.

Maybe some people sense that sort of thing more than others—that feeling you get when you're standing in a spot where you know something really dramatic occurred.

Also, she's standing in a slightly awkward position, putting her weight on her knees.

We have a number of European partner business schools which are of the highest standing in their respective countries.

Now, he was standing in a vast cavern.

Suddenly, to continue the metaphor, you're standing in a large crowd of people with a distinctly chilly feeling down below!

Yet here he was, at midnight on the second day, standing in a drafty corridor.

I was standing in front of him, staring the Magma Members out with all the coldness and utter detestation I could muster.

Showing a woman posing beside her laden donkey, with three figures standing in the background.

A great blue heron was fishing, standing in water up to his belly feathers.

It was a very nerve-racking experience standing in front of the Girlguiding picture boards waiting to be presented to Her Majesty.

He seemed a bit moody and we were all totally numb as we had been standing in the freezing cold for hours!

The interconnection tunnel I was standing in seemed to have a larger diameter than a standard underground station foot passageway.

In this case the last photograph shows the family standing in front of their portrait at the Royal Society of Portrait painters Annual Exhibition.

They happened to be standing in a place that felt sinister, claustrophobic, and not forgetting, chilly.

This quality of standing in relation to other things is that which gives to a thing its reality.

After fusion the mass solidifies to a transparent vitreous solid which dissolves readily in water to form boric acid (q.v.); it is exceedingly hygroscopic and even on standing in moist air becomes opaque through absorption of water and formation of boric acid.

When standing in dense woods the trees are rather straight and formal in early growth, especially the sessile-fruited kinds, and the gnarled character traditionally assigned to the oak applies chiefly to its advanced age.

The temple was still standing in 1676; some eight years later it was demolished by the Turks, and its stones built into a bastion; on the removal of the bastion in 1835 the temple was successfully reconstructed by Ross with the employment of little new material.

Gradually, however, it became apparent that it would be desirable to give Turkish state securities, of which those governed by the decree of Muharrem formed the principal part, a better standing in European financial markets than was possible for bonds bearing so low a rate of interest; to obliterate thus, as far as possible, the effects of the past bankruptcy; and, further, to give the Turkish government a joint interest with the bondholders in the progress of the ceded revenues.

It is a quaint old town, approached by a fine avenue of trees, and standing in the midst of a patch of fertile ground.

The Vesta of the state is in fact the king's hearth, standing in close proximity to the Regia, the king's palace; the Vestal Virgins, who have charge of the sacred fire, are the "king's daughters," and as such even in republican times were in the manus of the pontifex maximus, who was the successor of the king on the legal side of his religious duties, as the rex sacrorum was on the sacrificial side.

Because television was radio with pictures, the first television shows were simply men in suits standing in front of microphones reading the news.

What good is our high economic standing in the world if we do not use it for good purposes?

As we approached the house I saw a child standing in the doorway, and Captain Keller said, There she is.

Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to the general, who looked through his field glass.

The Emperor Francis received him standing in the middle of the room.

A person of very high standing in our Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor.

The crowd unexpectedly found itself so close to the Emperors that Rostov, standing in the front row, was afraid he might be recognized.

Five minutes later Daniel and Uvarka were standing in Nicholas' big study.

Nicholas standing in a fallow field could see all his whips.

The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field.

Mademoiselle George was standing in a corner of the drawing room surrounded by young men.

Natasha was standing in the middle of the drawing room, emaciated, with a pale set face, but not at all shamefaced as Pierre expected to find her.

At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign's person, but for permission to serve in the army.

Two hours later the carts were standing in the courtyard of the Bogucharovo house.

The loaded carts were still standing in the yard.

Napoleon had lunched and was again standing in the same place on the Poklonny Hill awaiting the deputation.

The young officer standing in the gateway, as if hesitating whether to enter or not, clicked his tongue.

The tall lad, standing in the porch, turned his bleared eyes from the publican to the smith and back again as if considering whom he ought to fight now.

The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look.

Those standing in front, who had seen and heard what had taken place before them, all stood with wide-open eyes and mouths, straining with all their strength, and held back the crowd that was pushing behind them.

While Pierre, standing in the middle of the room, was talking to himself in this way, the study door opened and on the threshold appeared the figure of Makar Alexeevich, always so timid before but now quite transformed.

The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by.

They all had their coats unbuttoned and were standing in a semicircle with flushed and animated faces, laughing loudly.

Behind him, standing in the stirrups, trotted a Cossack.

Another section amid the regimental wagons and horses which were standing in a group was busy getting out caldrons and rye biscuit, and feeding the horses.

A tall redheaded man, standing in the shadow of the closed doorway, now came forward to speak.

These looked like a load of scaffold poles standing in line on the upper deck.

A shriveled husk of a man was standing in the center archway, watching her.

A view showing two Europeans in pith helmets standing in a field of growing sisal plants.

Showing three pupil nurses standing in front of the hospital entrance.

I turned around and saw Judy standing in the office doorway.

Young girl standing in front of a bike in Vietnam.

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Alternatively, other regions favored the saving of the last stook of corn which would be left standing in the field.

His body was found ' in from five to six feet of water, standing in a stooping position '.

Our Swiss fans were their usual brilliant selves, standing in the pissing rain, going wally.

You can now get the best seat in the house without standing in line for a second through your favorite online ticket seller.

If you find yourself standing in a lingerie store unsure of what to choose, use these tips to choose a well-fitting, comfortable pair of undies.

So when you're standing in line at the store waiting to check out and you want to show off your newest grandchild, it's easy.

Additionally, if you need to ship items to friends and family who live far way, you can take advantage of the holiday shipping deals that are available at many of e-commerce sites to avoid the stress of standing in line at the post office.

Some women prefer to apply makeup and groom standing in front of the bathroom mirror.

While standing in the kitchen after dinner, try grabbing a sponge with some soap and start making tiny little clockwise circles in the sink as you emulsify the bubbles under soft running water.

Online game rental means less time spent standing in line at the video store.

That's the only thing standing in your way?

You shouldn't wait to bring up the issue until she's standing in the middle of the department store lingerie section with an armful of barely-there bras she loves.

If you dread standing in front of your television following an exercise video, or you don't want to join a gym, there are things you can do to increase physical activity that won't make you feel like you are working out.

Perhaps when you envision the perfect wedding you don't see yourself walking down the aisle in your family's church or standing in front of a judge.

The night before my wedding at the rehearsal, I found out that the wedding coordinator had quit and standing in was the golf course owner's wife.

She was to be standing in the doorway observing the ceremony on the lawn outside.

No matter which way you personalize your wedding gift, you are bound to select a gift as unique as the couple with no standing in line required.

Typical wedding vows are usually very personal wedding vows, said only to your significant other, standing in front of you and all of your guests.

Your wedding DJ can invite guests table by table up to the buffet to get food, which also gives guests an opportunity to mingle with one another while standing in line.

It's time for an intervention when the harmful side effects of alcohol are destroying a person and standing in the way of change.

For the first time in Survivor history, three females were left standing in the finale, with 25-year old Parvati Shallow taking home the $1 million prize.

The still image from the film of Guffey standing in an open doorway has become one of the most recognized and iconic pictures from any science fiction movie.

Knowing the manual way to calculate mulch helps a lot when you're standing in the garden center trying to figure out how much to buy.

You don't want your plants standing in water after a summer thunderstorm.

In a fashion photo spread entitled One Size Fits All, two models, one plus size and one traditional size, are dressed in identical outfits and standing in similar poses.

A person working as a cashier spends his or her working day standing in place.

Anyone who is standing in water that is colder than 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 degrees Celsius) may develop hypothermia.

This can help to improve the strain on the leg muscles in those who stand for numerous hours per day, especially when you are standing in the same position daily.

Pure mirror glasses reflect so much light back that people standing in front of you can't see your eyes at all.

Many people choose to avoid the hassle of standing in line after arriving at the park by calling ahead - (714) 781-4400 -- to reserve tickets or by ordering online.

The chemicals used to make up this membrane have pores that are smaller than water droplets to keep water from penetrating the membrane to get into the pants, even if the wearer is standing in rapidly-flowing waters.

In 2002, a national department store chain published an advertisement on its web site for a toy called "Forward Command Post" that featured an American soldier standing in a bombed-out house.

The first area is the child's social standing in the peer group as a whole and is indicated by the child's level of social acceptance by other members in the group, usually classmates.

If you have one of the latter instructors, your ballet vocabulary had better be up to snuff; otherwise you'll be left standing in the back wondering what a 'tendu' and a 'balancé' are.

Line dancing is a set of moves performed by people standing in rows, usually in unison and usually to a country music song.

Reading about the amazing work that went into building it is one thing, but actually standing in front of it and witnessing its marvel features is much more exciting.

If you are tying the sash yourself try tying it in front of the body while standing in front of a mirror and then moving the sash to the desired location when done.

The investiture and rededication ceremonies are typically held with the girls standing in a horseshoe format.

No standing in the store trying to pick out the perfect card, no having to buy stamps and no going to the post office.

Wouldn't it be great if an attractive member of the opposite sex were standing in front of you whenever you preformed good deeds?

You can do this whether you're standing in line or walking past each other; just make sure that the volume of your voice is high enough for him to hear you speak.

I feel like there might be something there, but that his relationship status is standing in the way.

The other day we were standing in a group of friends when he put his arm around me and got a little closer.

It's just like standing in the card shop browsing but instead you get to sit comfortably at home.

This bright messenger bag depicts the one and only Cruella De Vil in all her cackling, evil glory, standing in front of the deserted mansion.

Whether you are wheeling your rolling duffle bag through airport security, or standing in the lobby of a posh hotel waiting to check in; your luggage speaks for you before you even say a word.

You can choose from a variety of different scenes for your tooled checkbook cover, including a buck and a doe, elk, bass, or a deer standing in a field of trees.

To say you'll need high energy in order to keep up with your Gemini is little consolation when you're left standing in the middle of a store because she remembered she wanted to attend the grand opening of a new art gallery.

The one exception to this rule kicks in when the Taurean woman believes that purchasing a certain object will put her in better stead at some point down the road, or that an object will increase her social standing in some way.

Have the toddlers take turns standing in front of the bubble machine and see how many bubbles stick to their arms and legs.

The hardest part (besides the standing in line, which can be arduous for the movies with the most buzz) will be deciding among the hundreds of offerings.

On December 19, 2003, CNN.com posted the photo of a ghost dressed in robes standing in the doorway of the Hampton Court Palace, the home of Henry VII.

In the background, you can see the ghostly image of Jim Morrison standing in the doorway of a nearby crypt.

They all ran into the bathroom to find Melissa standing in front of the mirror, dripping wet and wearing only a towel, one hand over her mouth in horror.

For example, you may need to watch a video a few times before you recognize the faint mist in the shape of an apparition standing in the doorway.

Later, there were reports of a young woman dressed in white standing in front of the gates of Resurrection Cemetery.

This model is perfect for long days spent running errands, walking around amusement parks or standing in line at the bank or grocery store.

If too many thoughts are rushing through their brain, standing in Mountain while taking deep breaths will help them regain composure.

There's little to be gained by screaming at a vendor rep standing in front of your desk.

There are a slew of ways this can be written, based on your standing in the company, your overall feelings toward the organization, why and when you're leaving and if you can honor the company's notice policy or need to leave sooner.

The model asks potential business opportunists to picture themselves standing in aisle 18 waiting to check out when another shopper approaches and says something along the lines of, "You must not know the secret of aisle 19.

You're expected to maintain a good standing in school, so your incoming grade point average, ACT/SAT scores and overall coursework are taken into account.

In reality, if you bothered going out to grab a sub and you're standing in line with a growling stomach, are you really going to opt for the most dreary thing on the menu?

The solitary pounding of the pavement during a jog or the self-imposed isolation of standing in a corner lifting weights can get a bit tedious, especially for an extroverted person who thrives in the company of others.

Using a weighted hula hoop does not have to simply mean standing in one spot and spinning the hoop around your middle.

Sitting and standing in the proper position, instead of being hunched over, is the best way to avoid back and neck strain.

This segment can get a little odd, as only one person is lit up at a time, so that the reactions are not seen be the person standing in the light.

If someone comes in looking exhausted and depressed after standing in line for eight hours, I'm asking myself, "Can you really handle this show?"

It is about a vampire on the hunt, standing in the shadows speculating about the turn of human affairs and what God would think of man now.

A tub rinse means that you kneel over and rinse your hair under the bathtub faucet, not by standing in the shower.