Sit

After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.

You're finishing the chowder if you sit there (motionless) all evening!

He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.

This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.

So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.

[…] and I am old enough to remember how often I have seen the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, about eight in the morning (when I was at Bath in 91 or 92), returning from the parade, where she had sate up the live-long night with her sister, Lady Duncannon; it can therefore be no disgrace to appear as if you felt for your daughter.

[…] And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, / Sate the king when healths went round.

I asked him to sit.

The dishes are still sitting on the table!

The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.

Jim's pet parrot sat on his left shoulder.

The Yellow Sea sits between the Korean Peninsula and China.

And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.

I currently sit on a standards committee.

In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session?

The calamity sits heavy on us.

Your new coat sits well.

This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.

How will this new contract sit with the workers?

I don’t think it will sit well.

The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.

Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.

The dining room table sits eight comfortably.

I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft

I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.

I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.

I saw […] Mrs. Turman, who sometimes sat Billy when Steff and I went out […]

Sitting was a “quintessentially American experience,” Yasemin Besen-Cassino, a Montclair State University sociologist and the author of The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap, told me.

The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.

I'm sitting for a painter this evening.

like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits

Sits the wind in that quarter?

Louisa, who […] had but ill born the commencement of this conversation, could sit it no longer, and hastily throwing up the sash, complained of the intense heat of the room.

The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.”