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How to use standbys in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word standbys? Here are some examples.

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I got on the flight even though there were a bunch of standbys milling around the ticket counter.
Only twelve players are selected along with three reserves and three standbys.
When they called the flight, to my relief I was one of the standbys who made it aboard.
The gate attendant announced that they were no longer accepting standbys, because they already had 50, and the flight was sold out.
Sure, you can still find shredded wheat, bran cereals, muesli, and other healthy standbys.
Some dishes on the menu change monthly, but standbys include grilled salmon with braised greens, somen noodles, snow peas, sesame and ginger.
Producers can fall into the same reasoning, so standbys and understudies rarely get the job when a star needs to be replaced long-term.
We are involved in world competition and we have to forget about those old standbys we thought we could live with.
The menu is almost too ecumenical, as if it had been focus-grouped: down-home noshes, charcuterie, bistro standbys.
Not only do we have diversion from prescription use, but we have the old standbys.
This dish, so simple to prepare, is one of the standbys of Indian meals.
It had Chinese waitresses serving African standbys — jollof rice, fufu, fish stew, okra — and almost every table was taken by African men or mixed couples.
Old standbys like walkathons, spellathons, and candy and light bulb sales are common.
In the fast moving world of PC graphics technologies, the old standbys are now the new residents of the bit bucket.
According to the National Association of Concessionaires, the old standbys show no sign of fading.
However tremendous savings can be made for free or almost. they are about changing behavior like switching off lights, switching off the standbys or installing low consumption light bulbs.
Tantalize your taste buds with gourmet fare that showcases exotic ingredients, old standbys like pizza and ice cream or spa cuisine for a healthy alternative.
Hard chrome and electroless nickel are old standbys that are likely to remain major players for some time to come.
And don't forget those old standbys, multivitamin tablets.
But Republicans are strangely silent about what spending they would like to cut, apart from those inadequate old standbys, earmarks and government waste.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The jokes are almost quaint and it relies a lot on those old standbys of plumbing and embarrassing bodily functions to drive forward the plot.
But her music lives on, both as source material and as party tape standbys for homos everywhere.
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