sit back
Example Sentences
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“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
Agentic commerce is in its early days, but Vemana said he would rather be early and learn than sit back and wait for it to become more mainstream.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
"When owners are local, and have eyes on their investment, they take more care of their property. When they are miles away, they are happy to sit back and just take the rent."
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
“Don’t sit back and say, ‘I’ll do what I was doing before,’” Smith says.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
The outburst had made his mother sit back and blink, but he meant it.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
