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"Standby" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Just my old standby: lemon chicken.
National rescue teams are on standby ready to fly to Japan.
Sami chose to wait in a standby list.
Drones are male bees that are on standby for mating with a virgin queen, should the need arise.
Defense chiefs from 10 East African countries have pledged a total of 5,000 troops to a new regional standby force for deployment by December.
I'm on standby.
The fire department is on standby day and night.
The troops were on standby in case of an attack.
In 1915, concurrent with the L.S.W.R. electrification, power was supplied from the Waterloo sub-station, and the old equipment held in reserve. Some generator sets were removed, and motor generators installed for standby lighting and other services.
During three weeks of the run, I was performing with walking pneumonia, but I had no choice other than to perform because we didn't have the budget for stand-bys.
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That recipe is an old standby, and she keeps the ingredients around in case of unexpected guests.
The restaurant, Hop Louie, was a Chinatown standby for decades before closing in 2016.
Emerging from an Everyman Espresso shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, last month, David Lieber, a customer, lamented what he saw as Blank Street’s targeting of a neighborhood standby.
Standby while I check that for you.
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