stand around
phrasal verb
stood around; standing around; stands around
: to stand without doing anything
People were standing around waiting to get inside the theater.
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Immediately following that shot, the video cuts to a group of men standing around a 1970s-style boombox.
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Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025
Outside a high-rise apartment block damaged by a drone, residents stood around surveying the scene as the clean-up job began.
—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 4 July 2025
People stand around debris at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June 12, 2025.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
The lowest branch should stand around 18 inches above the ground, with about 6 inches in height between subsequent scaffold branches.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 June 2025
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Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025
Outside a high-rise apartment block damaged by a drone, residents stood around surveying the scene as the clean-up job began.
—Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 4 July 2025
People stand around debris at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June 12, 2025.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
The lowest branch should stand around 18 inches above the ground, with about 6 inches in height between subsequent scaffold branches.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for stand around
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“Stand around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stand%20around. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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