How to Use sit in a Sentence

sit

1 of 2 verb
  • The bird sat on the ledge.
  • She sat the toddler in the chair.
  • The cat likes to sit by the window.
  • She walked around the table and sat across from me.
  • He was sitting in a chair next to the window.
  • The children sat cross-legged on the floor playing a game.
  • Don't just sit there—do something!
  • She sat across from me during dinner.
  • The limousine is sitting outside.
  • Are you going to sit there and watch TV all day?
  • Patrick sat at the helm of the Senate floor, in the dais.
    — Olivia Osteen, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • To the right of the entrance sits a wet bar in front of a cozy den.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Muddle the sugar and the lemon peels and let sit for at least an hour.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 12 July 2023
  • Bea walked into the bright light of the galleria and sat at the small café.
    — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Browns took a knee in Week 18, sitting most of their key players.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That didn't sit well with investors in the company on the other side of the deal.
    — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Now, Louisville once again sits poised to face what could be a massive strike.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Next, sit squat while keeping your heels and toes on the ground, chest up, and shoulders back.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The Long Beach Millikan High gym sat, for a moment, in a stunned quiet.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This is sitting and living through the lives of others.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The homes and buildings sit several feet above the boulevard.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a safer form of activism these days that sits comfortably in the click of a button.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Across the table, a woman sat with her forehead in her left hand.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • Rankine sat forward in his seat and wiped his eyes, while Collins hugged his lawyer.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Keep In Mind The chairs are designed to sit next to each other, so the trays are on opposite sides.
    — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2023
  • Now, Perez sits just five homers shy of breaking Brett’s all-time franchise mark for home runs as a Royal.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • You are encouraged to sit and lounge and read.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • But others sit far away from the gene — perhaps millions of nucleotides away, with more genes in between.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • In a set of Instagram videos shared one day apart, the 36-year-old sat down to candidly discuss the process.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • But the term falls along two fault-lines, technology and race, when the actual villain sits beneath both.
    — Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

sit

2 of 2 noun
  • The walking-to-sit method even worked in the daytime, the results showed.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Georgia Tech’s odds to pull off the upset sit at a long +1100.
    — Catena Media, al, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Outraged special VIPs staged a sit-in in the front row.
    — Curbed, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The First Sit There’s always something special about the first sit of the year on a bear bait.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 25 May 2023
  • Challenge your teen to see who can run the fastest, do the most sit-ups or walk the most steps every day or week.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The remnants of the building sit at the end of Center Street near College Avenue.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Keeping your legs on the ground, perform a sit-up, reaching for your toes.
    — Greg Presto, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The inner lining pulls out for a sit pad in the backcountry, and for cleaning.
    — Outside Online, 23 June 2022
  • During the sit-down, the mom of two opened up about her motherhood journey.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
  • Darke will bring the sit ski and bike to Union Glacier Camp and then try each out on the terrain before making her choice.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2022
  • For a long sit, nothing beats a pop-up, hub-style ground blind and a comfortable chair.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Only so many quirky sits, bad raps, and yaoi overtones the show can endure.
    — Vulture, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Wide receiver Darnell Mooney was running a sit route in the middle of the field.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Protestors are planning an around-the-clock sit-in at the Statehouse throughout the week.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2022
  • The protests followed the first sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter by four Black men, later known as the Greensboro Four.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey and Jeff Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022
  • So far, four teams have reached the Texans’ threshold and have flown to Houston for a sit-down with Watson.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Kalanick wanted a peaceful sit-in or march in the city’s center.
    — Aaron C. Davis, Rick Noack and Douglas MacMillan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
  • While clips aired on Today, the full sit-down aired in a special Dateline episode Friday.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
  • The seat cushion is thick and comfortable for long sits, but sticks out and can be bulky if walking in tight brush.
    — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • The subject matter is rough, but the film rewards the tough sit: The movie has earned wide critical acclaim.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Meghan chased her son on the beach in black-and-white home video footage shared during the Sussexes' sit-down with Winfrey, which aired in March.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Marked by parades, demonstrations, sit-ins and and rallies across the state, the campaign ended in a 62%-38% vote to repeal the law.
    — Julie Carr Smyth, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Organizers of the podcast, amid the backlash, urged people to listen to the full episode of their sit-down with the rapper.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • His cartoons were printed on large placards and carried at protests and sit-ins.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
  • Making a kid sit for that long is usually a tall order.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Feb. 2022
  • In their midst comes Zeke Phillips (Tyler Lang), a young man who disrupts the status quo by staging a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • While Keefe and Haraghey ski upright with two skis, 32-year-old Ravi Drugan uses a monoski, or sit-ski.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Complete three to four sets (one wall-sit equals one set).
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 18 June 2026
  • Metals such as iron and zinc sit at the core of many of the most ancient enzymes found across life forms.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • Most mitigation for this sit at the enterprise level.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

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