grandstand
IPA: grˈændstænd
noun
- The seating area at a stadium or arena; the bleachers.
- The audience at a public event.
verb
- (intransitive) To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd.
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Examples of "grandstand" in Sentences
- Beside the soccer field is the grandstand.
- The grandstand is located within the Dolphin Island.
- In the grandstand, the floor and seating was pulled out.
- I find your grandstanding and pomposity laughably futile.
- Often, the grandstand was the covered area of the ballpark.
- It is located behind the clubhouse section of the grandstand.
- From the grandstand to the dugout, everything in the park was wooden.
- A major divergence from the Jewel Boxes was the layout of the grandstand.
- Only the half round of the terraces of the main grandstand is recognizable.
- The lower level concourse is the major one, leading to the main grandstand.
- Only those seating in the grandstand are sheltered from the elements of nature.
- Top speed will be 315 km/h during a 1. 1-kilometer straightway after the main grandstand.
- The grandstand is of the same age, and material as the now departed east stands at Daylis Stadium.
- The temptation to play confrontation politics, to play to the grandstand, is the worrying consequence.
- Now just opposite the grandstand was a post some ten feet high, with a small beam projecting from the top toward the spectators.
- At ten o'clock the games began -- and I took the Blight and the little sister down to the "grandstand" -- several tiers of backless benches with leaves for a canopy and the river singing through rhododendrons behind.
- Although rules on the wearing of fascinators in the royal enclosure will be tightened, a hat or fascinator will be compulsory for women in the grandstand, which is open to the public and subject to less stringent rules.
- His patience had already been worn away by the reluctance of the Dulwich Estate, the owner of the freehold, to grant a lease long enough to make it worthwhile to undertake the necessary refurbishment of the grandstand, which is closed for safety reasons, and the 450‑metre track itself.
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