Sentence examples of "stand up" in English
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach out for the ballot.
À une époque où l'on faisait taire les voix des femmes et où l'on congédiait leurs espoirs, elle a survécu pour les voir se mettre debout et se prononcer et tendre la main pour prendre un scrutin.
He has the habit of standing up when he is angry.
Il a l'habitude de se lever lorsqu'il est en colère.
He stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray and stood up to leave.
Il écrabouilla son cigare dans le cendrier et se leva pour partir.
Incredibly, one of the students stood up and mooned the dean right in the middle of his speech.
Incroyable, l'un des étudiants s'est levé et a montré ses fesses au doyen en plein milieu de son discours.
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