Stand
Stand noun - A level usually raised surface.
Yard
Yard noun - An open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls).
Nearby Words: yardage, yarding
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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That waitress at Pete's who took so long to seat you, And left you to stand in the doorway, With her stringy red hair and her thousand-yard stare, In her mind, she's the Princess of Norway.
Source: Thousand-Yard Stare -
Lisbon tells the yard workers that her girls have a right to stand there.
Source: Literature / The Virgin Suicides -
Thousand-Yard Stare: After Skrzetuski's time spent in captivity, witnessing the horrors of the war firsthand, Chmielnicki can hardly stand to endure his gaze.
Source: Literature / Sienkiewicz Trilogy
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