How to Use stand tall in a Sentence

stand tall

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• Waterbucks stood tall and stately along the trail and hordes of the little Angola impalas scurried across in front of us.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• Norway’s defence stood tall against the Ivory Coast, dealing well with set-piece deliveries and crosses.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 July 2026
• Eloy Room stood tall in the face of it all to make the most saves in a 90-minute World Cup match to secure a historic point for Curacao.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 4 July 2026
• Eloy Room stood tall in the face of it all to make the most saves in a 90-minute World Cup match to secure a historic point for Curacao.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
• Eloy Room stood tall in the face of it all to make the most saves in a 90-minute World Cup match to secure a historic point for Curacao.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 7 July 2026
• At 6ft 1in (185cm), Bouaddi stands tall as a defensive-minded midfielder who can break up play but also start attacks through clever build-up play, which is a skill Liverpool need.
  — The Athletic, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• Sly Stone famously titled the album as a response to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, and those 1971 releases stand tall today as two very different monuments to the creative and political possibilities of soul music.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 7 July 2026