Standup is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Standup meaning
Alternative form of stand-up.
Using Standup
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of stand-up.
- In the example corpus, standup often appears in combinations such as: standup comedy, standup comedian, standup comic.
Context around Standup
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Standup
- In this selection, "standup" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, based, raised, sketch, comedy, comedian and outside stand out and add context to how "standup" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1995 when standup comedian russell and and performs standup comedy as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "standup" sits close to words such as acadian, ame and amg, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with standup
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Comedian, actor and writer/producer Nick Swardson will perform standup. (10 words)
That includes standup paddleboards, kayaks, personal watercraft and other craft. (10 words)
It was 1995 when standup comedian Russell Peters last performed in Red Deer. (13 words)
It’s something this Paris-raised, Birmingham-based standup has made her speciality, and her gentle ribbing has gone down a storm so far, bagging the 28-year-old best newcomer at last year’s Chortle awards. (37 words)
Nimmo took a full-count slider from Brad Hand and drove it into center field for a standup triple in the ninth, allowing him to then score easily on a fly ball by Lindor. (34 words)
Eddie Izzard made that part of her standup routine, where she explained that experts say that it isn't what you say but how you say it and the way that you look. (33 words)
Man, who would’ve thought that a 24-year-old competitive Pokemon player who seemed like a rebound for Lydia would end up being the most standup guy of the season? (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Anderson will be playing defensive end with his hand on the ground in Houston after mostly playing as a standup outside linebacker while at Alabama.
An East Kootenay-raised standup comedian is returning to the region with a new show that will double a fundraiser for Radium Hot Springs’ bighorn sheep herd.
Another HBO show scored when Last Week Tonight with John Oliver won for the eighth consecutive year, this time in the guild’s expanded Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television category.
At 6042, 251 pounds, Baldonado has a great build for an edge, whether that’s the standup variety in an odd front, or hand in the dirt in an even front.
Comedian, actor and writer/producer Nick Swardson will perform standup.
Eddie Izzard made that part of her standup routine, where she explained that experts say that it isn't what you say but how you say it and the way that you look.
He's now living in Toronto and performs standup comedy as part of Ucrazy.
If you love to laugh and simply want to chillax this weekend, you can go for a standup comedy show.
In the past, she's been gifted a dog painting and other beaded items from Standup.
It’s something this Paris-raised, Birmingham-based standup has made her speciality, and her gentle ribbing has gone down a storm so far, bagging the 28-year-old best newcomer at last year’s Chortle awards.
It’s the stuff of a thousand prior standup sets, but Aléshé’s joyous disposition makes you happy enough to revisit it.
It was 1995 when standup comedian Russell Peters last performed in Red Deer.
Kresicher turned to standup comedy, telling stories mostly based on his life, his family, the situations he finds himself in, and how people react to him.
Man, who would’ve thought that a 24-year-old competitive Pokemon player who seemed like a rebound for Lydia would end up being the most standup guy of the season?
Nimmo took a full-count slider from Brad Hand and drove it into center field for a standup triple in the ninth, allowing him to then score easily on a fly ball by Lindor.
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (streaming on Netflix, starting Christmas Day) • Christmas seems like sort of an odd day to release Gervais’ latest standup special.
Sara is a 20 year veteran stage and vocal performer, and started her standup career in the midst of the pandemic.
That includes standup paddleboards, kayaks, personal watercraft and other craft.
There, Buscemi was a nervy, extremely New York performance artist named Gregory Stark, doing standup in the subway and stealing away the protagonist's much-younger girlfriend.
This year’s event will be hosted by River Butcher a Los Angeles-based standup comic, actor & writer.
Common combinations with standup
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: