sit

Example Sentences

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At this point, I usually sit in the waiting room biting my nails, bracing for the results.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

The city's many pilgrim tour companies sit idle.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

As for making history, Ingordo said it wasn’t anything they talked about, and DeVaux “doesn’t sit there and go, ‘I’m a woman, hear me roar.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

“We still think of them as passive devices: We sit, we watch, that’s about it,” Or Goren, editor-in-chief of cord-cutting advocacy publication Cord Busters, wrote to me in an email.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

But our glasses still sit on the counter.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith