sit

You could also let the check sit on the table before reaching for it, Clayman suggests.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Because these immune hubs sit directly next to the brain, researchers believe they could eventually provide a way to influence immune activity in neurological diseases without broadly affecting the rest of the body.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The 58-year-old has 13 children but said he might "sit the whole day without selling anything".

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

“No one has time to sit home all day and make sure every little thing is organic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

We would sit down at midday with all the other refugees in the great dining hall and eat good hot food.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

“He just sat there and ate it,” McKay would later testify.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Dressed in a dark suit and white shirt with no tie, the former president sat with his chin resting on his hands as proceedings opened.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

While the sun is blazing overhead, I keep the sat phone tucked in my back pocket and play the role of carefree traveler, riding jauntily around in Land Rovers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

She sat in the front passenger seat, window open, handing out cash, taking payments.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

For several moments Peter and Mutti did not speak, but sat there just looking at one another across the kitchen.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

It seems likely that Sir Keir's rhetoric in PMQs will sate some Labour MPs for now.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

The startup says its discoveries can help sate the U.S.’s thirst for power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

But it might be enough to sate Mazen, to buy more time.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

After the Ambassadour with his gentlemen had sitten an houre and more, there came three or foure chauses, and brought them into the great Turkes presence.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

"Oft have I by thy cradle sitten, And fondly seen thee sleip;150 Bot now I gae about thy grave, The saut tears for to weip."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

Not even the wild Highlands have sitten through so many calls as we have done here in Galloway and the South.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Give, bid, sit, make in the preterit gave, bade, sate; in the participle passive given, bidden, sitten; but in both bid.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

Business, being carried on with great unanimity, was soon despatched; and after they had sitten near two months, the king, in a speech full of the most gracious expressions, thought proper to dissolve them.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume

Baker claimed Winchell was sitting at a nearby table and refused to come to her aid, causing a flurry of support for her cause.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Smialowski, who was photographing Trump's return to Washington from a rally in North Carolina, said he was watching carefully as the president appeared to be sitting in a different seat than usual.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Since the beginning of the central bank’s modern era about 50 years ago, it has been extraordinarily rare for a sitting Fed chair to dissent on a decision on interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

And throughout it all, day after day, Fiona Donohoe was a constant, quietly dignified presence, often sitting alone in a corner at the back of the Coroner's Court.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

They would gather around the sitting room windows to watch them, often for hours on end.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo