How to Use standoff in a Sentence

standoff

noun

• The two governments are currently in a standoff over who has rights to the land.
• The ads appear to be some of the first to mention the spending standoff.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• This led to a tense standoff that police had to defuse.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
• The street was closed for several hours as the standoff went on.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• So, unless the DNC relents, the standoff will leave Biden in a bit of a pickle.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• In the chaotic standoff, both sides saw a battle for the soul of Israel.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• So there were no awkward standoffs with him or anyone in the cast.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• There’s no sign the two sides are getting close to resolving the standoff.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• The standoff ended with most of the mutinous players returning to the field.
  — Rachel Chaundler, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The last-minute snag created a tense standoff on the second day of what was meant to be a four-day cease-fire.
  — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• Those are the stakes in a standoff between the Teamsters union and UPS, a fight that remains tense as the strike deadline nears.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 July 2023
• The gunman was found dead a short time later after a standoff with armed police.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Two major factors gave mortgage rates room to fall: the deal to resolve the debt ceiling standoff early in the month and the Fed’s rate hike pause in the middle of the month.
  — Holden Lewis, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
• The standoff came up at the caucus lunch, Schumer told reporters, highlighting some of the same messaging.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2023
• While the fight over the spreadsheet didn’t come up at the hearing, there was a long list of related document standoffs to hash out.
  — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
• Here’s how ballooning debt and a standoff with the Teamsters union led to Yellow’s downfall.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• After a brief standoff, the 26-year-old man was taken into custody.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• After what Shaver described as a brief standoff, the suspect shot himself.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 7 Mar. 2023
• Mateen was killed after a three-hour standoff with SWAT team members.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
• Despite the standoff on the street, there was a happier ending on Monday in Chasiv Yar.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Some say the junior doctors are asking for too much in a standoff that is putting patients at risk during one of the busiest times of the year for hospitals.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
• And 75 officers in Pittsburgh were placed on leave after a standoff.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Authorities did not release the names of either the man involved in the standoff, or of the woman he was suspected of killing.
  — Ray Chavez, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Jonathan Taylor's options in contract standoff That's why Taylor has flipped his axis on the Colts.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
• At the end of season 2, Euphoria left off with young Ashtray (Javon Walton) was gunned down in a standoff with police.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• But a protracted budget standoff has held that help hostage in Richmond.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• Several blocks were shut down earlier in the day, and multiple schools in the area were placed on lockdown during the standoff.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Gilmore incident comes eight days after deputies fired upon an armed standoff subject in Fair Oaks.
  — Daniel Hunt, Sacramento Bee, 23 Mar. 2024
• There’s also a chance of this standoff spreading to other publishers this spring.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2024
• There’s one specific point within one of our fight’s — our two-versus-one with Michelle Yeoh — when there’s a little standoff.
  — Brandon Streussnig, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024