stand around

verb

stood around; standing around; stands around

: to stand without doing anything

People were standing around waiting to get inside the theater.

Examples of stand around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Maybe go back to the drawing board with all those other dudes standing around. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

One grid of photographs features an array of people standing around bridges in sunny forests. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Deer lay down a lot of clues, but not all of these are worth hanging stands around. — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

In 1935, a horde of white people stood around as Rubin Stacy, a Black farmworker, was lynched in Plantation Florida. — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for stand around

• aboveground
• battleground
• belowground
• paperbound
• turnaround
• ultrasound
• underground
• wraparound
• abound
• aground
• astound
• background