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stand to
verb
- adverb military to assume positions or cause to assume positions to resist a possible attack
- stand to reasonto conform with the dictates of reason
it stands to reason that pigs can't fly
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Example Sentences
Here I met with Will Bowyer, and had a promise from him of a place to stand to-morrow at his house to see the show.
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Who were the engineers who constructed artificial rocking stones and skilfully poised them where they stand to-day?
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And Florence chose the pillars, which stand to-day beside the eastern gate of the Baptistery in that city.
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I stand to-day, as I believe, in the presence of greater events than those which attend the making of a President.
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As things stand to-day a council of city men are not likely to advance salaries where their police court is losing money.
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