Example Sentences for standing. 1  He was standing to take his leave, and turned away his eyes.  2 I had the good luck to be standing near, said Clif, modestly. 3  The carriage was still at some distance, standing motionless where they had left it.  A short distance off there was standing a small closed carriage.
Wadlow broke the record for worldâs tallest man when he reached 8 feet, 4 inches in 1937. After graduating high school, Robert went on tour with the Ringling Brothers Circus, and later crisscrossed the country to promote the International Shoe Company, which graciously provided Robertâs size 37AA footwear.
The former record holder was Mongolian Bao Xishun who was measured at 7 ft 8.95 in on January 15 2005 at Chifeng City Hospital, Inner Mongolia, China. The UK's tallest man is Neil Fingleton, who was measured at 7ft 7.56ins at the Guinness World Records offices on January 29 2007. The tallest ever man was American Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in Alton, Illinois on 22 February 1918 and was last measured at 8ft 11.1in tall on 27 June 1940.