Examples of standee in a Sentence
The audience of 3,000 included several hundred standees.
Recent Examples on the Web
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.
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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
Sadiq’s visual wit is never more apparent, meanwhile, than in the image of Haider ferrying a giant cardboard standee of Biba across town on his moped: a trans woman literally larger than life, defiantly taking up space against the night sky.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 June 2022
Its mascot is, after all a goofy, boggle-eyed llama alpaca (llama?) with a pronounced underbite; the animal also appears as an elaborate in-game standee denoting the first player.
—Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
The Congress is undergoing a $69 million redevelopment that will transform it into a live music venue with a capacity of 4,000 standees.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
Along the sides, every chair is full, and there’s a line of standees leaning against the walls.
—Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
But then there are streets, and streets serve not just drivers but also bicyclists on bikes, pedestrians on foot, café-sitters and jewelry-vendors and food-cart standees.
—Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Mar. 2018
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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
Sadiq’s visual wit is never more apparent, meanwhile, than in the image of Haider ferrying a giant cardboard standee of Biba across town on his moped: a trans woman literally larger than life, defiantly taking up space against the night sky.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 June 2022
Its mascot is, after all a goofy, boggle-eyed llama alpaca (llama?) with a pronounced underbite; the animal also appears as an elaborate in-game standee denoting the first player.
—Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
The Congress is undergoing a $69 million redevelopment that will transform it into a live music venue with a capacity of 4,000 standees.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
Along the sides, every chair is full, and there’s a line of standees leaning against the walls.
—Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
But then there are streets, and streets serve not just drivers but also bicyclists on bikes, pedestrians on foot, café-sitters and jewelry-vendors and food-cart standees.
—Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Mar. 2018
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First Known Use
1845, in the meaning defined above
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“Standee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standee. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.
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standee
noun
stand·ee
stan-ˈdē 
: one who occupies standing room
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