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Grandstand   /grˈændstˌænd/  /grˈænstˌænd/   Listen
Grandstand

verb
1.
Perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause.



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"Grandstand" Quotes from Famous Books



... no time to listen. The window turned into a chute, and he slid down its polished sides into an amphitheatre. There, across gray sand, the corpse crept toward him on the stubs of arms and legs. The enormous grandstand was empty except for the judge and the informer, who sat side by ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley
... hall carpeted with sawdust and redolent of cedar, its dairy house, its mechanics' hall sacred to farming implements, its long sheds full of sheep and cattle, its dining-hall, its temporary booths of rough lumber, its half-mile track and grandstand. Here voices of beast and vendor mingled in a chorus of cupidity and distress. In Floral Hall Sol Rollin was on exhibition. He gave me a cold nod, his lips set for a tune as yet inaudible. He was surveying sundry examples of rustic ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller


Words linked to "Grandstand" :   box seat, perform, performing arts, audience, covered stand, stand


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