stand to

verb

1. adverb military to assume positions or cause to assume positions to resist a possible attack
2. stand to reason
   stand to reason to conform with the dictates of reason

   it stands to reason that pigs can't fly

Example Sentences

Here I met with Will Bowyer, and had a promise from him of a place to stand to-morrow at his house to see the show.

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Who were the engineers who constructed artificial rocking stones and skilfully poised them where they stand to-day?

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And Florence chose the pillars, which stand to-day beside the eastern gate of the Baptistery in that city.

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I stand to-day, as I believe, in the presence of greater events than those which attend the making of a President.

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As things stand to-day a council of city men are not likely to advance salaries where their police court is losing money.

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