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.
Kosen, who is from Mardin in southeast Turkey, was officially named the tallest man in the world in the 2010 Guinness Book of World Records, taking the title from China's Bao Xishun, who is 7-feet-9. He began towering over his peers at age 10, and doctors found a tumor around his pituitary gland was causing it to produce too much growth hormone.