stand around
verb
stood around; standing around; stands around
: to stand without doing anything
People were standing around waiting to get inside the theater.
Examples of stand around in a Sentence
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And the fact that people pay money to stand around for four hours, or more, to watch a press conference is a remarkable testament to sports fans’ willingness to be bored as long as football is tangentially involved. —
Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026 In the rare snap, Wilkinson and her daughter stood around the same height while Hank towered over the two. —Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026 But even football games are mostly spent standing around. —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026 In one panel, children maimed or exhausted by labor stare out bleakly; in another, unemployed men in a small industrial town sit or stand around. —Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stand around
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026 In the rare snap, Wilkinson and her daughter stood around the same height while Hank towered over the two. —Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026 But even football games are mostly spent standing around. —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026 In one panel, children maimed or exhausted by labor stare out bleakly; in another, unemployed men in a small industrial town sit or stand around. —Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stand around
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“Stand around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/stand%20around. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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