For many hours people staged a sit-in at the airport, the second since Friday, to attract international attention to their cause.
Source: tatoeba (10309057)
Sit-in
Synonyms for "sit-in" (69 found)
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Related words (34)
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Translations
23 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِعْتِصَام noun (type of protest)
Catalan
2 entries- seguda noun (type of protest)
- tancada noun (type of protest)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 靜坐 /静坐 noun (type of protest)
Dutch
1 entries- zitprotest noun (type of protest)
Finnish
1 entries- istumalakko noun (type of protest)
French
1 entries- sit-in noun (type of protest)
Georgian
1 entries- გაფიცვა noun (type of protest)
German
1 entries- Sitzblockade noun (type of protest)
Hungarian
1 entries- ülősztrájk noun (type of protest)
Japanese
3 entries- シット・イン noun (type of protest)
- シット・ダウン noun (type of protest)
- 座り込み noun (type of protest)
Korean
1 entries- 농성 noun (type of protest)
Persian
1 entries- تحصن noun (type of protest)
Polish
1 entries- strajk okupacyjny noun (type of protest)
Portuguese
1 entries- protesto sentado noun (type of protest)
Russian
2 entries- забасто́вка по-италья́нски noun (type of protest)
- сидя́чая забасто́вка noun (type of protest)
Spanish
2 entries- encierro noun (type of protest)
- sentada noun (type of protest)
Swedish
1 entries- sittstrejk noun (type of protest)
Vietnamese
1 entries- toạ kháng noun (type of protest)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
In 1960, the carousel was the focal point of a civil rights sit-in demonstration against segregation at the park. Because the amusement park was segregated - whites only - many were left out.
Source: tatoeba (12366874)
Thousands of students marched in the streets and staged a sit-in at T’ien-an-men Square, chanting “Long live democracy! Long live freedom! Down with corruption!”
Source: wiktionary
Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.
Source: wiktionary
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