Standoff used in a sentence

Standoff in a sentence as a noun

Just 40 years ago the US was locked in a standoff with an adversary with enough nuclear weapons to end life on the planet.

Another one of those things my grandfather would say that this reminds me of is this, "The thing about a Mexican standoff is that sometimes they shoot.

It felt like for my whole life the world was trapped in a Mexican standoff, and the inevitable result was the annihilation of all life on the planet.

Moving from the idea, through the exhilaration of the almost-playable proof-of-concept, to the inevitable standoff with the ***** in the details.

The usual script for these kinds of things is a standoff where the host country denies passage out of the embassy, so the person being harbored in the embassy is stuck there until either that person gives up, the embassy gives them up, or some kind of deal for passage or exchange is struck.