"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One hundred fifty fire trucks stood sentinel on the narrow winding streets.
- Others are shaped like huge eggbeaters standing sentinel over the valley below.
- On many rooftops, men stood sentinel with weapons in their hands.
- A huge oak stood sentinel over the empty grave.
- A solitary cottonwood that had already shed its leaves stood sentinel at one end.
- Two of us would stand sentinel while the other two were swimming.
- I take the significance of this to be that the one Rider who had stood sentinel under the trees went to fetch the other two.
- Or from the cypress trees that stood sentinel outside the park gates?
- Always, she kept trees between herself and the meadow over which the hunting stand stood sentinel.
- On the hill overlooking the harbor entrance, a huge French fort stood sentinel.
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