"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tobias is shown as heroically standing at his master's side as the waves of attacking slaves close in, made to look like a subhuman horde of vampiric, zombie barbarians biting away at the Colonel's men.
- An instance (see: "The Language of Tourism") was Roy Dunstan's full-length portrait entitled "Jimmy" of 1935, standing heroically with a spear and gazing to the distance.
- The triumphant king is shown standing heroically on the backs of prostrate captives - the Maya version of a photo-op.
- "Our soldiers are heroically standing up to the attack, and I say that we will not put our tail between our legs and leave."
- Following this the Greek fleet blockaded the adjacent seas to prevent naval invasion and provisions for the enemy of 300 Spartans who stood heroically at Thermopylae pass.
- "It is a Lebanese reality," one that has "stood heroically" against Israel and forced it to withdraw from southern Lebanon.
- Each of us was determined to stand heroically, wide awake and impervious to the lingering chill in the night air.
- At the end, the scene once again shifts to a Heineken advertisement saying "Get Connected, Heineken," but with Xiao Xiao standing heroically on top the bottle.
- I'm sure when this is all over some idealistic monument sculptor will have him standing heroically gazing skyward next to his wreck, but he was a bit more bashed up than that.
- Huge silver cisterns stand heroically at the entrance and glint in the sun.
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