sit back
Example Sentences
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“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!”
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Davji Bhimji Atellah, KMPDU's secretary general, said the union "will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
But the flip side is also false — that you need only sit back and do nothing, and you’ll get rich.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
“I feel like we’ve always been so in the moment of creating and evolving and doing our work, it seems strange to sit back and do a sort of retrospective.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
They both sit back down, and I walk over to the door.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
