How to Use grandstand in a Sentence

grandstand

1 of 2 noun

• The race started to our left and finished in front of the grandstand.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
• Be a part of all the high-speed action with a pair of grandstand seats.
  — The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
• Fans booed as the horses returned to the grandstand after the race.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• The starting gate was in the backstretch chute, rather than in front of the grandstand.
  — Stephen Edelson, azcentral, 20 June 2020
• The best spot to watch the fireworks is from the grandstands at La Ronde.
  — Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
• The scenes in the grandstand after the U.S. goals were joyful.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2021
• There were audible gasps from the grandstand at the bottom of the course as fans watched on the big screen.
  — Steve Douglas, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
• There is a small grandstand across the pits, just beyond the start finish line.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2023
• The Kansas City fans got back on their feet in the grandstand.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
• The grandstand crowd went bananas as the two Kyles jousted.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 1 July 2018
• Up in the grandstand, Cian and his family found some seats for the rest of the races.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The one-tier grandstand surrounds the entire field and there is simply not a bad seat in the house.
  — Bobby Sullivan, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• From the backside workouts to the grandstand, a look at Louisville's day at the track.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2018
• With the massive grandstand gone, there is little left of the former track.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• Unlike the sprint races, which end near the grandstand north of the festival area, the head races run the whole course.
  — Shannon Eblen, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• This year, the neighborhood city hall provides a small grandstand on one side of the court.
  — Catherine Porter James Hill, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• Without its frame of the packed grandstand, the view of the emerald green field would be far less stirring.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
• The Beavers hoped to have permanent grandstands in place this spring.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 May 2023
• At least one seat and in most cases two seats will separate groups in the grandstand.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2021
• With the crowd in the grandstand watching mostly in silence, paramedics at the track soon arrived.
  — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2019
• There wasn’t any piece of the grandstands or any patch of grass that wasn’t covered in people.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
• Rain helped fill seats in the grandstand building at the horse racing track where the festival is held.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• The track allowed about 20% of the grandstand to be filled.
  — David Brandt, ajc, 15 Mar. 2021
• Otherwise, the place has cleared out — from its vast parking lots to the grandstands to the grass oval.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
• There were empty blue rows throughout the grandstands, too.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Baffert does not like to watch major races in the grandstand, or with owners.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 5 May 2018
• On the opposite side is a grandstand that takes advantage of this view.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 6 May 2021
• That finish fired up her supporters in the grandstands.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• The trailer was just behind the grandstands on the 18th hole.
  — Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
• Members of the press clustered at the fence, pads in hand, as the grandstand churned with an overflow crowd yet again.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023

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grandstand

2 of 2 verb

• This one will be too close for Dabo to call grandstanding timeouts in the final minutes.
  — Jay Boozell, ajc, 21 Nov. 2017
• That leaves an opportunity for one of the other four to grandstand by voting no and then playing to the press afterward.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• The Mayor was grandstanding—this was what people were saying.
  — Mark Singer, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Several said his plan was short-sighted and an attempt to grandstand on an issue that has frustrated the city for years.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• Goodwin is a tall, smart, look-at-me type with a line of grandstanding rock ’n’ roll patter.
  — Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
• One result will be a diminution of candor, and a commensurate increase in grandstanding and playing to the public back home.
  — Jonathan Rauch, Time, 19 May 2017
• Never let it be said that Trump misses an opportunity to grandstand.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 June 2018
• Prosecutors, however, have asked the judge to bar Pawlowski from grandstanding on his record in office.
  — Philly.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Yes, in all likelihood your colleague probably is grandstanding because that’s one of the ways ambitious people get heard.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The goal is to de-politicize the process and get to the truth, instead of grandstanding and giving senators an opportunity to launch their presidential campaigns.
  — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• And they are treated as mentally imbalanced or grandstanding accusers.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• Lawmakers fumed and grandstanded, but didn't reconvene to overturn his vetoes.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
• For decades, members of Congress have marked the occasion of raising the ceiling with grandstanding speeches about the other side’s spending priorities.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 13 May 2023
• An early sequence, in which his tech savviness saves the day during one of Balsillie’s presentations, proves that the geek and the grandstanding salesman are the real match made in heaven.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2023
• Then, once what she’s done gets dragged further into the light, the character has to unravel in a way that doesn’t suggest grandstanding or digging into a buffet of chompable scenery.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• Or is California simply grandstanding by picking a fight with a president the state government despises?
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• The only people who pretend that spending and borrowing are two separate decisions are politicians who are trying to grandstand before ignorant voters.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
• But Everett doesn’t grandstand about self-esteem or standards of beauty, as many of her contemporaries do; her ease in her own skin is liberation enough.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• This year, grandstands around Turn 1 were removed and replaced with a high-end campground, the Turn 1 Resort.
  — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2018
• Politicians on both sides of the aisle have been grandstanding in their criticism against the NBA in recent weeks for allegedly placing dollars over human rights in China.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2019
• The questions ranged widely, but most lawmakers seemed more interested in grandstanding than eliciting constructive answers from one of the world’s youngest multibillionaires.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
• Also in the works is a one-of-a-kind Wall of Honor to celebrate the track's winning drivers with banner signage at the bottom of the Wallace and Colvin grandstands on each side of the oval.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
• The discussions quickly descended into bickering, with an extraordinary back and forth that saw the two sides trading accusations over the state of democracy in their countries and accuse each other of grandstanding.
  — Eric Martin, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
• Also, conducting the interviews in private prevents candidates from grandstanding or politicking for votes.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 17 June 2019
• Trump, argued Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham, grandstands over a border crisis that does not exist (see his chart below).
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• But knowing how the night really works, Kimmel spent little time reprimanding Hollywood or grandstanding about politics.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2018
• Under fire from antitrust regulators, grandstanding politicians, and proponents of truth and democracy the world over, Zuckerberg has recently adopted a more aggressive style of leadership.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 May 2020
• Pete Mackanin stood at home plate in 1980 and watched his fly ball soar towards the Fenway Park grandstands.
  — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• What has not proceeded as fast is a credible response from Cory Gardner and his Republican colleagues; storming the House proceedings hardly counts as anything other than grandstanding.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• Undiplomatic grandstanding by Chinese officials has undermined Beijing’s effort to present itself to Europeans as an honest broker.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan and Christian Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024