sit up
Example Sentences
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But even though “Reminders of Him” isn’t a great film, it’s a door-opener, a movie that will make both studio heads and screenwriters sit up and listen.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
Markets typically shrug at geopolitical shocks, but this time they might have to sit up and pay attention.
From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026
Marley has also started at mainstream school and can "sit up in class in his chair and be like the other kids".
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
The MGM brass realized, Mr. Eyman writes, that “she possessed something valuable—an electric charge that made an audience sit up and take notice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Kids who didn’t have dogs thought he might come when somebody called him, or sit up and beg, or roll over, or fetch papers.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
