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• n  the audience at a stadium or racetrack
• n  a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof
• v  perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause
  She never misses a chance to grandstand

• At the Delaware County Fair in New York state, demolition derby entrants crash their clunkers on the muddy track of the grandstand.
• At pretty little Santa Rosa, Calif, last week, 8,000 fun-loving rustics sat in the grandstand of the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, watched 46 local jalopies rattling round round the.
• In a glassed-in cupola atop Santa Anita's grandstand sat a man with a different view.

• covered stand

News & Articles

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• Plan for Measure M upgrades to Holbrook-Palmer Park field goes to commission
  Plans to add covered grandstand seating and make other improvements to Holbrook-Palmer Park's baseball field will be vetted Wednesday by the Atherton Planning Commission.
  June 21, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News
• Free fireworks show July 3 at Louisiana Downs
  The Bossier City horse racing track's apron and grandstand will be open for viewing the display.
  June 21, 2013 - The Shreveport Times
• Franklin County Fair plans for big grandstand crowds
  Grandstand tickets for the Franklin County Fair are selling quickly for stars like Vince Gill and the Little River Band.
  June 17, 2013 - Plattsburgh Press-Republican

Quotes

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• Jenson Button in The Press Association
  Button in particular, though, was having none of it as he said: "I was wetting myself when I saw the paper. It's hilarious We did this promo thing in a VW campervan and stopped at a petrol station on the way up, handing out grandstand tickets. So we...
• Ricky Ponting in Sydney Morning Herald
  That's the shortest game of cricket I've ever played, no doubt,Ricky Ponting said. "Obviously the shorter the game goes, the bigger the difference a single over or shot makes. [Marshall's six over the grandstand] was a pretty impressive...
• Lewis Hamilton in iAfrica.com
  I think he's coming, yeah - I've invited him. It will be good that he's there,he said in The Sun. "I've got grandstand tickets so I said you can choose whether you want to be in the paddock or the grandstand. I said he should go into the...