Examples of standee in a Sentence
The audience of 3,000 included several hundred standees.
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While Universal will provide creative assets such as trailers, standees and other digital and physical materials, theaters big and small will look for ways to lure audiences to their locations with special collectible popcorn buckets and unique food and drink options.
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Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025
In addition to traditional promotional items such as imposing standees in movie theater lobbies and themed popcorn buckets, fans of the film can shell out $20,000 to buy a full-size replica sarcophagus bed.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Plans included creating dozens of life-sized standees to advertise the movie, conducting a sweepstakes with tens of thousands of dollars in prizes and hiring a company that could get the film into theaters.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
That’s right, the Golden Globe winner, 41, carried — and even posed with — a cardboard standee of his castmate dressed up in a sheer black polka dress and high-rise briefs, which was much appreciated by Pugh, who apologized on her Instagram Stories for not being able to attend.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Each one has a cunning plastic standee figure and specific abilities.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 14 Oct. 2024
The folks upstairs, if not the mostly younger standees below, will surely recognize the visual reference to Studio 54, the celebrity nightclub where Marcos, the first lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, danced away the last decade of her reign while impoverishing her people.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 July 2023
The actors often perform on an array of moving platforms that transport the action to various parts of the theater while incidentally sweeping the standees into new configurations.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 July 2023
One episode’s subplot about a hellaciously difficult-to-construct standee for an Emma Stone release called Thimble 2: Thumb Wars manages to poke fun at franchise stans, Hollywood’s sequel obsession and the weirdness of movie promo campaigns all in one go.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
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Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025
In addition to traditional promotional items such as imposing standees in movie theater lobbies and themed popcorn buckets, fans of the film can shell out $20,000 to buy a full-size replica sarcophagus bed.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Plans included creating dozens of life-sized standees to advertise the movie, conducting a sweepstakes with tens of thousands of dollars in prizes and hiring a company that could get the film into theaters.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
That’s right, the Golden Globe winner, 41, carried — and even posed with — a cardboard standee of his castmate dressed up in a sheer black polka dress and high-rise briefs, which was much appreciated by Pugh, who apologized on her Instagram Stories for not being able to attend.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Each one has a cunning plastic standee figure and specific abilities.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 14 Oct. 2024
The folks upstairs, if not the mostly younger standees below, will surely recognize the visual reference to Studio 54, the celebrity nightclub where Marcos, the first lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, danced away the last decade of her reign while impoverishing her people.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 July 2023
The actors often perform on an array of moving platforms that transport the action to various parts of the theater while incidentally sweeping the standees into new configurations.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 July 2023
One episode’s subplot about a hellaciously difficult-to-construct standee for an Emma Stone release called Thimble 2: Thumb Wars manages to poke fun at franchise stans, Hollywood’s sequel obsession and the weirdness of movie promo campaigns all in one go.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
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“Standee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standee. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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standee
noun
stand·ee
stan-ˈdē 
: one who occupies standing room
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