standoff
Example Sentences
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When Pascal finally slaps Phoenix across the face, the joke is gone and what’s left is a petty, pathetic standoff, scored to Perry’s incongruously perky anthem.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, fully enforcing a quarantine or blockade is difficult and could take time to have an impact, prolonging the standoff.
Last week, video of a standoff between three Waymo cars in San Francisco also went viral.
From Los Angeles Times
There is clearly no end for now in the standoff between Iran's leaders and many of its own people – particularly in the younger generation – over how women are allowed to dress.
From BBC
Everyone’s got a device in their hand pretty much all the time, aiming their cameras at each other like pistols in a Wild West standoff.
From Los Angeles Times
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