"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One reason is that Hillary stands aloof, hard to get, while all the others are slavering for support.
- The doctors know that he is best with her, and when not actively engaged about him, stand aloof.
- Exxon has stood aloof, assuming it was large enough to fend for itself.
- Britain has stood aloof so far from the single currency.
- I had stood aloof as she went through her maternal tortures.
- Then he turned to the fourth man who stood stiffly aloof from the others.
- Why had she stood so silent and aloof while all that had been pictured for me?
- The police appeared helpless to control the mob violence, and the military stood aloof.
- She stood stiff and aloof, waiting passively for whatever was to come next.
- Venice alone, who held in her pay the Grand Company, stood aloof.
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