"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No Federation vessel has as yet been fired upon, but we will not stand passively by waiting for that to happen.
- Doc, who had been standing passively waiting, seemed to come alive.
- In the middle distance, one or two figures must appear in a field, standing passively.
- But do not passively stand by and let evil win the day.
- This firm will not passively stand by and be a scapegoat for anyone.
- They were standing passively some fifteen feet away, looking at him with a flat hate that was not human.
- On the other hand, he had never been able to stand passively by while the strong took advantage of the weak.
- How could all these people stand passively and hear such hysterical words without protest?
- While the man stood passively, she opened her handbag, taking out a purse, searching through it.
- The man stood passively while the two girls stripped off his clothes.
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