How to use stance in a sentence

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• The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.From the entry criticism
• The politician received several detailed criticisms of his stance on the issue.From the entry criticism
• Though initially adopting a hard-line stance, the politician soon started to backpedal.From the entry backpedal
• The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.From the entry affected
• The fighter dropped into a protective stance.From the entry protective
• We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.From the entry proactive
• I settled on the boy who stood up in superhero stance, hands on his girlish chinoed hips.2018, Koren Zailckas, The Drama Teacher, Crown, →ISBN. From the entry chinoed
• At Iwamadera, the Nio, a distinctive ebony and shiny as lacquer, enhanced their ferocious, don't-mess-with-me muscular stance.2018, Joan D. Stamm, A Pilgrimage in Japan, page 114. From the entry nio
• The longer, more bladed stance is a more mobile in-and-out platform.2018 September 27, Jack Slack, “Koreshkov Vs. Lima III is the Sleeper Fight of the Weekend”, in VICE, archived from the original on 09 Sep…. From the entry outfighter
• This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on…. From the entry creed
• The neo-positivist stance is by far the dominant discourse of our age.2017, Manu Bazzano, Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry neopositivist
• Honing the band's anthemic sound and stance, they relocated to Richmond and created a solid lineup.2014, Kevin Prested, Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records, page 79. From the entry lineup
• Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun…. From the entry myriad
• Bad Cop defines the hard line stance, while Good Cop is the sympathetic problem solver.2009, Deborah Douglas, Ripe: Harvesting the Value of Your Business, SelectBooks, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry good cop/bad cop
• McCain relented in April, but his new stance represented mostly a political pivot, supporting administration antiforeclosure efforts.2008 June 15, “Foreclosures and the Election”, in New York Times. From the entry antiforeclosure
• A monoped can move only by hopping, which consists of alternating flight and stance phases.2007, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. From the entry monoped
• The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball.2006, James W. Lennox, Janet Rayfield, Bill Steffen, Soccer Skills and Drills, page 28. From the entry sideways-on
• With regard to defining sprachbunds, two different stances can be distinguished.2005, Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, “On Linguistic Areas”, in Language Contact and Grammatical Change (Cambridge Approaches to Language…. From the entry sprachbund
• Some people walk with a panther or strike a buffalo stance that makes you wanna dance.2003, Deborah Gregory, The Cheetah Girls: Livin' Large!, page 405. From the entry flip the script
• But despite her antimarriage stance, she idealized romantic love and saw harm in mere sensualism.2002, Jean L. Silver-Isenstadt, Shameless: The visionary life of Mary Gove Nichols. From the entry antimarriage
• The pro-martyr stance of the statements above will only have been more dramatized in their story form.2002, Antoinette Clark Wire, Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers. From the entry pro-martyr
• She identified three different stances: playing in screenland, art in screenland, and writing in screenland.2000, Maureen Patricia Carroll, Whitecaps on the Keyboard, page 20. From the entry screenland
• The antirealistic stance of the School of the Art Institute continued to influence him.1995 January 6, Harold Henderson, “Are We Missing Something?”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antirealistic
• "He has always had a near libertarian stance on keeping government out of people's lives."1994 March 24, Timothy Egan, quoting Tom Paniccia, “Goldwater Defending Clinton; Conservatives Feeling Faint”, in The New York Times. From the entry Goldwater Republican
• The only clarification Alice was forced to make later concerned her apparent antikissing stance.1994, Jean L. Kling, Alice Pike Barney: her life and art. From the entry antikissing
• He lay so still that the trout returned to their stances beside the stone sterlings.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry leat
• We took deliberate action to make our non-sanctuary stance clear."2025 May 30, Rebecca Santana and Jonathan Lloyd, “These California cities and counties are on the DHS list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions'”…. From the entry burns
• There is nothing left wing about alternative medicine, the rejection of scientific research or ostensibly anti-authoritarian stances against state regulation.2021 October 20, Vashti Fox, “It’s time to confront the anti-vaccination far right”, in Red Flag, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2021. From the entry conspiritualism
• So the stance was crucial, because a mis-swing or glancing blow off the wood could veer towards a leading leg.2019, Joanna Foat, Lumberjills: Britain's Forgotten Army. From the entry mis-swing
• My political stance as a Pasifika poet has always been one of inclusion – I'm a bridge not a wall.2018, The Guardian, "Post-colonial talk back: seeing London in the South Seas", Selina Tusitala Marsh, 24 February 2018 (Selina Tusitala…. From the entry Pasifika
• But might environmental scholars and activists find it in themselves to muster some sympathy for these, shall we say, "complicated" stances?2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 42. From the entry postfactual
• I assume that this referred to my gender-critical stance.”2018 October 30, Anna Fazackerley, “UK Universities Struggle to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Trans Rights Row”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 06…. From the entry gender-critical
• First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.2017, Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bloomsbury Circus, page 270. From the entry preadolescence
• She leaped down beside him and took a karate stance.2017, Jerry Mahoney, My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Snow White, page 101. From the entry hi-yah
• The only phrase that hints at a more progressive ecotheological stance is the mention of a need for “reverence for earth”.2017, Panu Pihkala, Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler, section 134. From the entry ecotheological
• Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be. From the entry anti-incest

Meaning of stance

1. noun The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. noun One's opinion or point of view.
3. noun A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.

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Questions about stance in a sentence

How do you use stance in a sentence?

Stance is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The fencer’s stance showed he was ready to begin.”

What is a short sentence with stance?

“The fighter dropped into a protective stance.”

What does stance mean?

Stance means the manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.