sit back
Example Sentences
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Listeners, meanwhile, are free to sit back and imbibe the music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 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
“Don’t sit back and say, ‘I’ll do what I was doing before,’” Smith says.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
"There's some moments where you sit back and you just go, this is amazing," said Mosca after scoring an accomplished 43.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
“And if you’re going to sit back here and read, you might as well read something worthwhile,” she snapped.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
