7 sentences with 'standing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word standing and other words derived from it.
• « At the crematorium there were as many people standing as sitting on chairs and benches, and there were represented, besides all ages, classes and races, all styles of hairstyles. »
• « Australopithecus was similar to today's chimpanzees, which moved along the ground on all fours rather than standing upright, with brains about one-third the size of modern human brains. »
• « Sargon also created the world's first standing army, a group of soldiers employed by the state who had no other jobs or duties. »
• « The Assyrians were the first empire in the history of the world to systematically conquer almost all of its neighbours with a powerful standing army and to control the conquered territory for hundreds of years. »
• « Throughout Greece, polis first adopted the practice of state-funded standing armies, rather than volunteer citizen soldiers. »