How do you use Standoff in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like draw or tie, plus the exact meaning.
Standoff meaning
- A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign or electrical wiring.
- A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists.
Using Standoff
- The main meaning on this page is: A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign or electrical wiring. | A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists.
- Useful related words include: draw, tie, finish, repulsion.
- In the example corpus, standoff often appears in combinations such as: the standoff, standoff with, standoff between.
Context around Standoff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 12 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Standoff
- In this selection, "standoff" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, limit, fired, tense, missiles, outside and led stand out and add context to how "standoff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a heated standoff outside an and a long standoff with authorities. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "standoff" sits close to words such as abrams, affirmed and altar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with standoff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A debt-limit standoff has embroiled the market in volatility in recent days. (13 words)
If Korea can solve its Mexican standoff, the nuclear question will become redundant. (13 words)
Andrews and Swann fight over wrist control to start and miss stereo dropkicks for a standoff. (16 words)
Blackhawk was a student at McGill when Elijah Harper, clutching his eagle feather, doomed the Meech Lake Accord, and during the Oka Crisis, which saw Mohawk activists face Quebec police and the Canadian army in a seventy-eight-day standoff. (40 words)
Donald Sutherland, a bank teller from Scotland who immigrated to Australia, recounted the Glenrowan Siege, Ned Kelly's final standoff with police, in an 1880 letter to his parents in Scotland that resurfaced in 2013. (35 words)
Authorities had already located another suspect, Jermaine Burnett, 32. He was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside Forest Village apartments near Providence on Tuesday following a long standoff with authorities. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
A debt-limit standoff has embroiled the market in volatility in recent days.
After all, IAF jets have often fired standoff missiles against fixed targets in Syria while flying unopposed within sovereign Lebanese airspace.
A man has been taken into custody after a police operation in Bradford city centre - which saw a road closed during a standoff with a man on a building.
Andrews and Swann fight over wrist control to start and miss stereo dropkicks for a standoff.
An officer was hit in the face and was bleeding from the nose and mouth during the standoff.
A North Carolina man allegedly initiated a tense standoff with police after attempting to rob a Wells Fargo bank in Clarendon.
Armed police have been filmed in a heated standoff outside an home amid a major incident this morning.
Authorities had already located another suspect, Jermaine Burnett, 32. He was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside Forest Village apartments near Providence on Tuesday following a long standoff with authorities.
Blackhawk was a student at McGill when Elijah Harper, clutching his eagle feather, doomed the Meech Lake Accord, and during the Oka Crisis, which saw Mohawk activists face Quebec police and the Canadian army in a seventy-eight-day standoff.
Boston police arrested a suspect Saturday after a standoff in Mattapan that started when shots were fired while firefighters were responding to a building fire.
But compromise seemed elusive and Netanyahu's legacy was on the line in a standoff over the fundamental issue of what kind of country Israel should be -- and positions only appear to have hardened.
Discussions were partly overshadowed by the US debt ceiling standoff as the world's largest economy faces its first ever default.
Donald Sutherland, a bank teller from Scotland who immigrated to Australia, recounted the Glenrowan Siege, Ned Kelly's final standoff with police, in an 1880 letter to his parents in Scotland that resurfaced in 2013.
Earlier in the day, the armed standoff led to the postponement of the annual Downtown St. John's Christmas Parade.
For Your Information- Since 2020, Corps Commanders of India and China have been discussing resolution of the flashpoints along the LAC, including those which emerged after the standoff began.
From that moment on, Nashoba goalie Charlie Mattocks and Scituate netminder Thomas McMellen found themselves in a standoff, which lasted until the late stages of regulation.
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is appearing at a committee hearing Thursday morning, fresh from finally ending Canada’s standoff with over the Online News Act.
However, Mauser pushed back against the notion that there was a standoff with police when he was asked to surrender.
However, the film is best known for its iconic standoff sequence when the pillars of heroism, villainy, and moral ambiguity square off in a three-way duel.
If Korea can solve its Mexican standoff, the nuclear question will become redundant.
Common combinations with standoff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the standoff 41×
- standoff with 40×
- standoff between 19×
- standoff in 15×
- in standoff 13×
- tense standoff 7×
- standoff is 7×
- standoff missiles 4×
- after standoff 4×
- standoff over 4×