standing room

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noun

space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.

accommodation for standing.

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Origin of standing room

First recorded in 1595–1605

Words nearby standing room

standing on one's head, stand in good stead, standing order, standing orders, standing rigging, standing room, standing wave, standish, stand mixer, standoff, stand-off half

How to use standing room in a sentence

The order followed weeks of ever-changing regulations, requiring limits to total capacity, an end to bar seating, and a halt to standing room at drinking-only spots.
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?
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However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
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Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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