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.
Meet the Tallest Men in the World. At 8-feet 5-inches tall, Leonid Stadnik is uncomfortable in his ill-fitting shoes, his bulky clothes and his horse-drawn cart, but he is really uncomfortable in the spotlight as the world's tallest man. The reclusive Stadnik, who is 37 and lives in Podoliantsi, Ukraine, was given the title last August by the Guinness World Records.