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Examples of standee in a Sentence
The audience of 3,000 included several hundred standees.
Recent Examples on the Web
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
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
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Word History
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 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
standee
noun
stand·ee
stan-ˈdē
: one who occupies standing room
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