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
Now I could sit back and relax—or so I thought.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
“Don’t sit back and say, ‘I’ll do what I was doing before,’” Smith says.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
"Sometimes we sit back, we're on our heels. We're not leaning in," he said.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
I sit back in my seat and wonder if Grandpa would be able to put the bullies at school in their place also.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
