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Unfortunately, most runners warm up and then stand around for a while before their races begin. They might as well not warm up at all!

Person (esp a woman) who has no dancing partners at a dance and has to sit or stand around while others dance.

Most people with a functioning self-preservation instinct do not just stand around in this area.

I break my neck getting here on time, and then have to stand around like a wooden Indian! He can't make a fool out of me!

Today, at work I was talking to a co-worker about what a slacker my manager was, and how all she did was stand around and talk.

At the English Corner, a great number of students stand around the foreign teachers, or just stand in twos and threes, talking and laughing.

Churchill didn't stand around saying most people think we will lose the war. He said we will fight it on the beaches.

You think I pay you bitches to stand around and yap?

Few investment bankers would stand around chatting to all-comers as he does at functions and parties.

From 5 in the morning all year they stand around these fires waiting for a white employer to pick them up for a day's labor.

The trainers come into town in the evening to stand around and talk and maybe get into a poker game.

After all, you can't stand around talking to yourself all day, there is a painting to be done!

What about the hamburger stand around the corner ?

That is his bread and butter. I don't know why Frank make him stand around and take 3 pointer. It is ignoring the hell out of me.

Alice was not about to stand around and watch while Jim and Nan argued.

I can't stand around and do nothing', I have to be busy at all times.

They all stand around the hole, smiles on their faces.

Then she suggests that we can sit the hamburger stand around the corner.

All you have to do is stand around, um. . . look at the art, schmooze a little, drink wine, eat tiny sandwiches.

At 6: 00, we stand around the computer and look at the next day's page and make final changes.

Who knows, if you stand around looking forlornly cute enough, they might even adopt you.

In our school, each class selected four students to stand around a makeshift Mao altar in four-hour shifts.

All the people stand around the table and sing Happy Birthday.

I stand around chatting with someone.

They stand around with their hands in their pockets. They do nothing.

l don't have time to stand around while you read the paper.

to stand around as surgeons and not cut.

Don't stand around doing nothing. Help me clean the table.

Where's a taxi stand around here?

They come when everybody's high so they can stand around and watch us make fools of ourselves.

"I stand around and talk about schools with the other crummy parents, the summer parents, " he wrote in a letter to me.

We shouldn't just stand around here.

My colleagues endlessly stand around talking and have coffee and drinks together and go to the gym.

They stand around on the sidelines passively watching everyone else having fun playing the other roles.

Grizzlies stand around 3. 5 feet (106. 6 cm) at the shoulder and can stand up to 6. 5 feet (198 cm).

Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morining till evening?

Prague, Czech Republic: People stand around a campfire as they commemorate the death of former Czech president Vaclav Havel

stand around try to make every moment and be somebody yeah anybody

We stand around in red flannel shirts, waiting to spit down the hole;

in which various characters sit around or stand around

But we cant have all these people staring stand around

Ah, stay, don't stand around