stand in need
Example Sentences
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She was panicking because she was aware, even at her tender age, that she was “poor and shall stand in need of something to gain support.”
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024
Science takes the objects of experience as explicanda, things that stand in need of explanation.
From Scientific American • May 24, 2011
No matter how respectable a man may seem, be he clergyman or vestryman or Y. M. C. A. secretary, he may still stand in need of your moral surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the governor: "I am very grateful, but I do not know why I stand in need of sympathy."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the letter he asked for “one of your scrapers as my teeth stand in need of cleaning.”
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
