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Sitting in a sentence

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Sitting meaning

  1. A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
  2. A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
  3. A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

Synonyms of Sitting

motion movement move motility session meeting seance posing unmoving nonmoving standing seated get together

Using Sitting

  • The main meaning on this page is: A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose. | A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller. | A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
  • Useful related words include: motion, movement, move, motility.
  • In the example corpus, sitting often appears in combinations such as: sitting in, sitting on, was sitting.

Example sentences (20)

Though too much sitting has long been linked to health risks, a new study suggests all sitting isn't the same -- and sitting in front of the TV after dinner for long hours at a stretch is especially unhealthy.

The BJP on Sunday announced the first list of candidates for the next month's Assembly elections in Telangana, fielding three sitting MPs and retaining all three sitting MLAs.

The former Musselburgh midfielder said: “Myself and John did 40 minutes sitting down and sitting in front of the camera.

The other occupants in the vehicle who were sitting in the back seat were a 30-year-old ‘salesman’ who was sitting behind the driver’s seat and his 22-year-old girlfriend (a cashier) seated next to him.

Whether a passenger is sitting with a hundred people or whether they are sitting with a few people just for Highland tourism, they're going to get floor to ceiling windows, they are flying quite low, you can see out and around.

While many of us will be sitting at our desks, wrapped up in a jumper, a blanket and two pairs of socks, office workers will be sitting comfortably in the knowledge they aren’t paying a penny of their workplace’s central heating bill.

Case in point, this incredible house that looks like it would be sitting on the beach in a tropical location, but it's sitting on a beach in Indiana.

He asked the jury not to disregard the girl’s own, unchallenged, evidence of consent and said: “Mr Murray is not sitting here masquerading as an innocent man – he is not sitting here trying to mislead people.

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In a video that had gone viral on social media, the policeman, clad in civvies, is sitting on a chair while the minor boy is sitting on the floor and begging the policeman to forgive him.

I think people feel like I’m sitting around on rap albums, or sitting around and I’m just not putting them out in that way.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has set aside the inspection Order granted the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) by the Governorship election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja.

The day Nottinghamshire Live visited a group of men and women were sitting in a row with dividers between them, in front of a computer screen, as if they were sitting an exam.

Video footage shows Jon Benjamin sitting in the front seat of a car and directing the weapon towards a person sitting in the back in what appears to be a joke.

What appears to be happening is that Jack Smith recognizes that the Department of Justice has a policy that says that a sitting president — that the Department of Justice will not prosecute a sitting president.

But at the same time, I was sitting at her bed, I was sitting there with a stack of her cookbooks, and my grandmother was a wonderful cook.

He said "sitting close" means sitting within about seven rows of the woman — the three in front of her and three behind her.

However, the train that went from Ludhiana to Assam driven by a loco pilot and co-pilot sitting in the front engine, while the second engine in the middle was managed by staff sitting in the first engine, using radio frequency.

Now picture sitting on the glass to witness Wayne Gretzky play, no one sitting in front of or around you as the greatest hockey player of all time performs his magic on ice.

Older chimps preferred sitting close to those who preferred sitting close to them – categorised as mutual friendships.

Sitting on stolen land can be like sitting on a ticking time bomb.

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Common combinations with sitting

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • sitting in 57×
  • sitting on 34×
  • was sitting 21×
  • sitting at 16×
  • sitting there 11×
  • sitting down
  • were sitting
  • is sitting
  • are sitting
  • sitting here

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "sitting" in a sentence?
An example: "Though too much sitting has long been linked to health risks, a new study suggests all sitting isn't the same -- and sitting in front of the TV after dinner for long hours at a stretch is especially unhealthy." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "sitting" from authentic English texts.
What does "sitting" mean?
Sitting means: A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
What are synonyms of "sitting"?
Common synonyms of "sitting" include: motion, movement, move, motility, session, meeting, seance, posing. Plus 5 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "sitting" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "sitting", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.