On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Sit. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as pose or display and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Sit in a sentence
Related words
Sit meaning
- To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To move oneself into such a position.
- To occupy a given position.
Synonyms of Sit
Using Sit
- The main meaning on this page is: To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | To move oneself into such a position. | To occupy a given position.
- Useful related words include: sit down, pose, display, exhibit.
- In the example corpus, sit often appears in combinations such as: to sit, sit in, sit on.
Context around Sit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sit
- In this selection, "sit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hence, imperative, nobles, down, near and across stand out and add context to how "sit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include want to sit there and, and i sit there in and sit down. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sit" sits close to words such as conservative, entered and harris, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I can’t take my shoes off and sit around, I can’t sit in my pyjamas. (17 words)
With all the strength and patience we need, we will sit sit sit and watch how it unfolds. (18 words)
While another wrote: 'I have muscular dystrophy and sit down exercises and sit down exercises are so helpful. (18 words)
If anyone even thinks of asking me what to do in a situation where Amy wants to sit near Steven but Steven has to sit across from Stacy and Stacy can’t be within two sets of Michael, I immediately break out in hives. (44 words)
It’s hard not to notice that the burial site was there so another thing they said was that they found that band and he said that they went to Sit and Sip and Sip and Sit denied the band being from the establishment. (44 words)
I suspect that when the badly received Beanie Feldstein launched the revival, Barbra didn’t want to sit there and be irritated, and when Beanie’s replacement, Lea, got raves, she didn’t want to sit there and watch the standing ovations, lol. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
With all the strength and patience we need, we will sit sit sit and watch how it unfolds.
Hence sit and to sit, as used in the following sentences, would each be considered an infinitive: * I can sit here all day.
Moreover, the unmarked form of the verb is not considered an infinitive when it is forms a finite verb : like a present indicative ("I sit every day"), subjunctive ("I suggest that he sit"), or imperative ("Sit down!").
The Lords Temporal ( nobles ) sit according to party affiliation: members of the Government party sit on the Spiritual Side, while those of the Opposition sit on the Temporal Side.
I can’t take my shoes off and sit around, I can’t sit in my pyjamas.
If anyone even thinks of asking me what to do in a situation where Amy wants to sit near Steven but Steven has to sit across from Stacy and Stacy can’t be within two sets of Michael, I immediately break out in hives.
I suspect that when the badly received Beanie Feldstein launched the revival, Barbra didn’t want to sit there and be irritated, and when Beanie’s replacement, Lea, got raves, she didn’t want to sit there and watch the standing ovations, lol.
Several Stanford students started a sit-in at White Plaza at noon on Friday — they hope to break for the longest sit-in at Stanford.
She gets to sit in the back row of allocated seats (which also happen to get more shade) alongside the three Richie founders - Michael Hennessey, Steve Blacker and Simon Colvin (all Sydneysiders) while the newbies sit down the front.
She says she would sit in absolute silence and write, then she would sit in silence again when she needed to decompress from the writing.
I sit on a throne, a throne I once broke, and I sit there in deep emotional debt to those who helped me accomplish my goals.
We can't of course sit a juror with an infectious disease next to the rest of the jury so it is not appropriate for the juror to sit in this trial while she is still unwell and potentially infectious.
While another wrote: 'I have muscular dystrophy and sit down exercises and sit down exercises are so helpful.
As seen on Shark Tank, and fully funded through Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the BetterBack allows users to sit effortlessly with perfect posture, easing back pain, as it essentially retrains your body how to sit comfortably.
Clarke, who is also a student at Arizona State University, asked Berglund to sit in the back seat and offered to refund him if he didn’t want to sit there, he said.
Deciding where to sit in my one class where people don’t actually sit in the same seat every class.
Sixty years ago on Feb. 13, African American students from area colleges began a series of sit-ins at public lunch counters in Nashville to fight for the right to sit at the same tables as white students.
The continued sit-in has forced government to plead the workers to call off the sit in and return to work immediately.
Although some people prefer to stand rather than sit beside a stranger, other people who have a bag, or multiple would like to sit down.
It’s hard not to notice that the burial site was there so another thing they said was that they found that band and he said that they went to Sit and Sip and Sip and Sit denied the band being from the establishment.
Phrases with sit
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with sit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to sit 76×
- sit in 35×
- sit on 22×
- sit down 21×
- will sit 10×
- and sit 9×
- sit with 9×
- can sit 8×
- sit out 7×
- sit sit 6×