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How to use stand-in in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word stand-in? Here are some examples.

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The situation worsened when at the start of the second half the keeper refused to play and had to be replaced with a stand-in goalie.
However, his replacement proved more than an adequate stand-in as he took the man of the match award.
As stand-in captain, he handled a very difficult situation with characteristic professionalism.
A drama teacher is hoping her pregnancy will not turn out to be a crisis for her acting group and is seeking a stand-in.
He walked out of casualty and got to the studio a few seconds after a stand-in had started the show.
They were knocked out of the Cup after having a stand-in keeper for the second half following an injury.
A group of people who were playing frisbee nearby asked if we could be stand-in bodies for them.
This time they made sure the stand-in had tattoos just like Beckham himself.
The en suite shower room has a tiled stand-in shower, a hand basin and a dormer window.
The accident happened when the woman, a stand-in chargehand, was working in the factory's pre-pack section.
On tape day, Dean would come in, watch a run-through with the stand-in, then go out and replicate the stand-in's actions.
Originally a male dance, dandiya raas once served as a stand-in for sword fights but has lost its meaning and is now just good fun all around.
The temptation to read the new novel's media-savvy hero as a stand-in for the media-savvy author should be resisted.
Take your pick from the central defensive duo of Paddy McLoughlin and stand-in skipper Ruairi Boyle.
Blanch was his stand-in model between sittings with his portrait subjects, including the queen.
He was chipping cheeky penalties past a stand-in goalkeeper.
Her stand-in guitarist seems less impressed and removes it placing it diplomatically on the drum kit, out of harm's way.
The former child star, who reinvented herself as a pop act, is to be a stand-in for the station's Dermot O'Leary.
You could say this character is a stand-in for all of America.
Testing pure fructose as a stand-in for high-fructose corn syrup, he argues, might therefore produce misleading results.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I had the stand-in summon her on the office telephone, then I withdrew all vitality from it.
Say, young fella, have you got any stand-in with your noble red brothers?
Miles may not have a stand-in, but he's solid with the ranks!
Edmonds, a stand-in for Johnnie Walker on Radio 2, wants to distance himself from House Party co-star Mr Blobby.
Ford, in fact, has become Pollack's de facto stand-in for Robert Redford, playing his part with the same remote impassivity that characterized Redford's work.
They interpret the leopard not as a species of feline, with its own attendant metaphorical implications, but rather as a stand-in for an animalized woman or Orient.
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