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    Use "sit" in a sentence

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    sitting


    1. Having sat down to consider the excellent fair on offer – dried


    2. Wel I say normal; I sat with a wool hat stretched to its limit over a large bandage whilst


    3. They sat here above Jorma's head at my table all the time we lived here


    4. As we sat there waiting for the meal to arrive, I remarked that the


    5. Jorma burst into laughter but Herndon and Ava both sat cold as statues in a drizzly winter dawn


    6. sat opposite me clutching to his chest a large briefcase


    7. Luke: 7:37: And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the


    8. Luke: 7:49: And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, who is this that forgive sins also?


    9. Jesus loves sinners, to a point He sat down and had a


    10. When this woman arrived where Jesus sat, she poured

    11. Telsair had sat at this table in the dawn with him, he wished she was here now


    12. Micah used to sit in his mom’s lap but didn’t like the way his dad sat


    13. The kitchen could keep a staff of four busy and the table sat twenty


    14. “What is that? A fish?” She sat next to Kevin at the bar, almost a head taller than him, sipping the froth off a White Russian


    15. Henry waved weakly and then sat back down on his hard chair


    16. She sat at the table, he sat at the counter and began frying some eggs


    17. The water rose so high that one man was forced to climb on top of his roof and sat in the rain


    18. The waters rose to the edge of the roof and still the man sat on the roof until another rowboat came by and another man told him to get in


    19. Peppy sat down on his rear, though it seemed to Violet like a war horse rearing his legs in the air


    20. I'd sat with him for several evenings while he drank himself silly and even cooked food for him, egging him on to eat when his appetite failed

    21. That was the main thought that kept racing through Johnny’s mind while he sat in class


    22. He sat cross-legged, staring into the fire


    23. He sat at her feet, gazing up into her


    24. the young bride, sat back in her chair, slowly trailing her hand away from that of her


    25. The young couple sat oblivious for a


    26. and made his way to where the Marchese sat


    27. With the Marchese sat on the sofa the young


    28. Dan sat back in his chair, still holding Jen’s hand


    29. He sat back, took a sip of his Martini, placed a new cigar in the cigar holder


    30. Jen, too, sat back with wide eyes and an open,

    31. Dan still lay, and she sat next to him on the same sun lounger


    32. He had sat with him at merchant's association block meetings


    33. watched at your brothers when we baby sat, all those people in the same room


    34. For his part the old man sat impassive, chain smoking throughout the couple’s


    35. She sat down, put her hands on


    36. I sat there, as mute as the sun was high


    37. in another one of it’s recalcitrant moods I sat idling away a couple of minutes thinking


    38. The man sat back down onto the cold pavement


    39. Theo sat for a moment


    40. Theo sat down in the one rickety chair provided in the reception area and checked his phone

    41. He looked skeptical, but he still sat up


    42. He sat and made stupid faces for a moment or two, as though manually grinding the gears in his head


    43. The three of them sat around it on some gravel mounds they'd scooped up


    44. Billie sat the kettle on a black range cooker, the sort that should never be


    45. surface of the tea, and with a tiny, eighty year old flourish she sat down opposite her


    46. ” She sat back again and looked him


    47. While sat on the loo, I had dozed gently before the realisation that the loo roll only had two sheets of paper left stirred what was left of my brain into action


    48. We sat in silence for a minute


    49. he raised the threadbare sheets up around his neck, and then sat up


    50. Theo sat down and then offered a cigarette













































    1. He would have to move this boat well before dusk if he didn't want it to sit on the bottom while the tide was out


    2. One could sit up when seated on the low benches


    3. The sleeping compartment was as he suspected, triangular and not even high enough to sit


    4. Still, he had been able to sit across a table from her


    5. Jorma turned to sit beside her


    6. will is not to sit in heaven and watch you here on earth


    7. In that instance, don't just do something, sit there


    8. After the obligatory studio photographs they had to individually sit for on the way in, presumably for record keeping purposes, they were frisked and taken to seats at long heavily loaded tables


    9. When I sit in it, I feel a little closer to him


    10. “You don’t need to sit with me, boys

    11. Micah’s dad would sit Indian-style in his room, leaning in close to the TV


    12. Micah used to sit in his mom’s lap but didn’t like the way his dad sat


    13. There was nothing to do here, really, except sit down at the hotel and watch T


    14. The waters covered the house and the man was forced to sit on his chimney as the rain poured down and a helicopter came by and another man urged him to get in or he'll drown


    15. I sit there trying to take all this in … Joanna hated gardening … where did that thought come from?


    16. We sit there in silence for some minutes after the policemen have left the room


    17. Add 1 cup of finely powdered clay into a gallon of filtered water, allow to sit for an hour


    18. Add 1 cup molasses and allow to sit for three days in the sun


    19. Allow to sit in sun for 24 hours


    20. Residents of the facility sit on some of the benches

    21. A couple of hospital workers sit on a bench nearby, chatting, keeping an eye on things


    22. Allow to sit for 1 month


    23. Allow to sit in the sun for at least 1 hour, three hours is best


    24. ‘But I can’t sit around here all day chatting


    25. 1 If you must use the city water, I would allow it to sit in the sun for a few days, stirring every once in a while


    26. The trick is to add 1 cup of the molasses per gallon water after it has sit for a few days


    27. Having found the time and the place, we shall sit down in a comfortable chair and begin to meditate


    28. The question then arises: How shall we sit? Is the cross-legged attitude the best, or shall we kneel, or sit, or stand? The easiest and most normal position is the best always


    29. The main requirements are that we should sit erect, with the spine in a straight line; that we should sit relaxed (without slumping) so that there is no tenseness anywhere in the body, and that we should drop the chin somewhat, so as to release any tension in the back of the neck


    30. Allow to sit, checking temp every three days

    31. moved both armchairs so that the couple could sit opposite the Marchese


    32. Dave leans over toward John when he sees him sit up, offers John the bottle


    33. There is a stone patio next to the building overlooking the pounding waves and a couple of local men sit drinking a beer at a plastic table and talking


    34. Jurgen motions for them to sit


    35. They all sit and Rosita brings the beer, sits with them


    36. I hand him a plate and some eating irons and we sit down at the table


    37. The funny thing was that when on the odd occasion I did sit and day-dream a


    38. I sit watching him for several minutes, remembering that other occasion when his temper got the better of him … and how he found it virtually impossible to rescue the situation


    39. Some hand tooled leather cowboy boots sit on the sand floor by an old chest


    40. They could just sit up and enjoy the ride, EndsWaving knew the back way to Taktor's since he opened the place in the 54th

    41. Trying to comfort her, though horribly aware that there is nothing I can say which will make things better, I sit beside her uttering soothing noises, one arm round her shoulders as she sobs for some minutes


    42. He told me to come into the shop and sit down


    43. Russ and John sit across the aisle from each other


    44. carriers and tanks sit off to the side of the approach roads


    45. Russ and Khalid sit opposite him


    46. houses, he might not stand out, where he might just sit and eat and while away some


    47. I sit in the car for nearly ten minutes muttering imprecations about that bloody man before my sense of humour gets the better of me and, realising just how stupid this whole thing is, burst out laughing


    48. unsure where to sit


    49. Ricci and PRINCE OMAR, a dapper, slender man about Ahmed’s age, sit across from each other on each side


    50. John and Khalid sit next to one another on the bed of the truck, their hands tied behind him













































    1. He sits there, panting, looking at the corpse that almost broke his leg


    2. She sits almost a head taller than me, sipping froth off a White Russian and staring at the back of the bar, as if the —Jager— on the shelf had insulted her mother


    3. He follows me through and, while I fuss around putting food on a plate for him, he sits at the table, resting his chin on his hands


    4. An environmental safe aluminum trap that sits on the ground where flies dwell the most


    5. A secretary, BETTY, about 60, sits behind a desk, typing away on a computer


    6. John sits in a chair next to the coffee table


    7. why are you here?’ I stammered, shivering slightly, as he sits me on the bed while he goes over to turn on the bedside lamp


    8. He sits down by the table and stares into space


    9. Clarisse sits in the nude on her calves beside John in their bed


    10. A trooper sits behind the wheel in each car with the windows rolled up and air conditioners running

    11. Baker directs John to one of the armchairs, unbuttons his jacket to reveal a gold tie chain, and sits in the other one, leaning forward in John’s direction


    12. He rubs his face, gets slowly out of bed, goes and sits in a chair near the bed, staring at Clarisse, naked, dark and beautiful, the sheets wrapped about her body in a haphazard way


    13. John sits with five other men on fold-up chairs while a YOUNG PSYCHOLOGIST in a cheap suit leads a session


    14. He shuts the door, comes back and sits beside John


    15. He sits up slowly, finds Dave sitting in an armchair next to him, watching TV, drinking Jack Daniels from a bottle


    16. An OLD MAN, bent back, barefoot, wearing ragged clothes and a beat-up straw hat, sits astride a donkey in the middle of the road


    17. They all sit and Rosita brings the beer, sits with them


    18. John stops, sits in the sand, watches the moon rising


    19. Dave sits beside John


    20. With a groan, he opens his eyes and sits up

    21. He sits up on one arm, sees that the man who saved his life is none other than


    22. He hears the waves pounding outside, sits up, throws off the blanket, sits on the side of the cot and looks about


    23. After a few moments, John slowly sits on the floor in front of the great Buddha, looking up into his face


    24. The sun is setting and John still sits before the Buddha, looking up into his face


    25. STUDENT 3 sits on steps leading up to the second floor, cleans his toenails with a large knife


    26. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby


    27. He pushes himself up sits, shakes his head groggily and looks about, reads the placard -- next to him -- that knocked him cold: "Islam is the Final Solution: For More Information, Contact Shaheet Islamic Center 325567


    28. Terry Bolt, now dressed to the hilt in traditional garb, sits on one side of the bus, furiously studying a copy of the Koran and mumbling to himself


    29. ‘How long have you lived here, Molly?’ she asked me, her chin in her hands as she sits at the table


    30. Abdullah sits beside them with his pistol drawn

    31. He staggers a bit, takes a pillow from a chair, goes over, sits on the floor


    32. Khalid sits behind them


    33. He sits back in his chair, smiling and as relaxed as can be, sips from his drink


    34. A villa sits in the moonlight a hundred yards inland and up a hill from the surf, which rhythmically pounds the white sand


    35. Hamo sits as at a corner desk in front of an oscillating fan that rustles papers, a calender on the wall, etc


    36. Ricci sits beside his driver, glances back at the long row of trucks following the lead truck, smiles


    37. John sits nearby, logging it all on with his laptop


    38. Khalid studies a spread sheet in the seat behind Russ and John sits gripping the seat armrests, beads of sweat on his forehead


    39. Bolt, covered in dust and fresh goat gore, sits on his ass in the mine field


    40. John sits down heavily like an old man in a chair

    41. John sits beside Khalid, who is unconscious, moaning


    42. Cable news report: A NEWS ANCHOR sits in front of a photo of a wrecked plane with the caption: Arababian Moonshine?


    43. ANOTHER GUARD sits in a small shack nearby with his head on a desk, SNORING


    44. John just sits there with his mouth open


    45. John sits, waits


    46. Relieved, he sits on the edge of the bed


    47. John sits upright on a dirty old mattress on the


    48. He lets that sink in, sits back, crosses his arms, looks John in the eyes


    49. John sits on his knees in the dark van, lurches forward as the driver speeds away


    50. Dante comes to the top and sits by the tree that gave great














































    1. Isa: 6:1: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple


    2. Even Tdeshi's other ghost, Venna, was better sitting in this sunshine than Tdeshi


    3. Any one woman in flesh sitting with him now would be better than all the might-have-beens in the centuries of memories in his mind


    4. No reason to avoid sitting in the sun with a morning cup to watch the snow melt


    5. He was said to be just sitting inside all day


    6. Micah’s dad spent a lot of the day sitting watching the old “bunny ears TV” he got from the attic


    7. “Are we gonna board?” asked a Southern woman sitting behind Hermann


    8. He didn’t have it yet, but sitting in the office waiting to speak to the principal, he knew he was going to get it


    9. I turn to Aiko, who is still sitting with her chai tea


    10. Sitting in the driver's seat was some kind of hairy man-thing, its nose stretching into a snout, fingers to claws before her eyes

    11. Now that they were up, they were sitting at the indoor table with the box open


    12. There was no sitting on the other side of the table either


    13. She’d bought them at a garage sale, said they’d be sitting in them when they were old farts and had a porch


    14. It was barely as tall as she was sitting atop this kargir


    15. ’ I said sitting up quickly


    16. That was about as close as it approached while sitting on the ground a few miles from the equator


    17. It’s peaceful sitting sprawled here on the sofa …


    18. One lady sitting by herself chatters happily


    19. An old man sitting on one of the benches nearby, GABRIEL, looks up at John


    20. ’ He said sitting himself down on the bed, ‘It was an education, I can tell you

    21. Peter woke up in a room with an old man sitting in a rocking chair


    22. Other passengers take their seats around him, some stowing luggage in the overhead areas before sitting


    23. "I'm here to claim a crate that I believe is stored in that area," he said to the guy sitting there, bringing out a piece of paper


    24. doostEr was sitting on a comfortable rock after he fed them, still in his tattered old night fur


    25. She stirs, feels for him, turns and looks at him sitting in the chair


    26. sitting at a table overlooking the sea


    27. A few days have passed and John is now sitting up in bed


    28. the back of the car, sitting back in deep leather comfort as the Moor drove them not to


    29. He sits up slowly, finds Dave sitting in an armchair next to him, watching TV, drinking Jack Daniels from a bottle


    30. sitting in the shade under its corrugated tin roof because it was one of those early

    31. get a glass of water, and was then sitting on a pile of old tyres that we used to keep


    32. It is fun clearing up the sitting room of the annexe … I know Stephen said to leave it until we know for definite that Liz is coming, but I had nothing much to do this afternoon and sometimes a good cleaning session is therapeutic


    33. A man about his own age was sitting by the side of the road with sign that read 'will work for food'


    34. morning when she’d brought the bins in and it was still sitting, dripping puddles onto


    35. Betsy was sitting outside, dozing uncomfortably on a plastic patio chair in the hallway


    36. him that showed a family sitting


    37. ‘What’s up?’ I asked Stephen as he comes into the sitting room followed by Liz


    38. He spots Hassan, one of the layabouts, sitting with a cigarette dropping form his lips, a bare foot resting on a coffee table pitted with cigarette burns


    39. Concerned, I hurry over to where she is sitting and, putting one arm round her shoulders, give her a hug


    40. Grinning appreciation at this banter, I go through into the office where Stephen is sitting at a desk

    41. I ended up sitting on the bench for hours, afraid to move, terrified for my family, trying to connect up the dots, but it seemed like suddenly my brain just couldn't form clear thoughts any more


    42. Once the food was done with they stayed sitting at the table to finish the wine,


    43. " She was sitting in Alan's childhood habitat, the camera could not detect that there was hard vacuum in here at this time


    44. mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting


    45. As a physical specimen, he was entirely the opposite of the poor wretch sitting


    46. The bedroom door bursts open and, by the light spilling in from the sitting room, Stephen rushes in, his hair all awry, wearing his dressing gown


    47. She was sitting in a rather large hall, grown from rows of trees that joined together high above


    48. bar, so long as you remembered to bend the knees when sitting, but of little use in


    49. The sun is warm and it is delightful sitting there on the grass munching on sandwiches I didn’t have to prepare


    50. He became so good at sitting and watching and waiting that a













































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    Synonyms for "sit"

    sit sit down seat ride model pose posture baby-sit babysit sit around abide occupy dwell stay relax lie remain repose roost perch squat hunker meet convene assemble

    "sit" definitions

    be seated


    be around, often idly or without specific purpose


    take a seat


    be in session


    assume a posture as for artistic purposes


    sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions


    be located or situated somewhere


    work or act as a baby-sitter


    show to a seat; assign a seat for


    serve in a specific professional capacity