sit

The tub edge should be wide enough to sit on and swing a leg over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

After more than a decade of marriage, this is an excellent time to sit down together with an estate-planning attorney and, if necessary, the attorney who drafted your prenup.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

I couldn’t just sit with it in my head where there’s no physical manifestation of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"I've got one friend who buys clothes and I sit outside the shop because I can't afford to go in," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

“I think maybe you should sit for a minute,” I hear her say, feel her guide me by my elbow.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

He and Flores sat quietly, wearing headphones for translation while their attorneys conferred with the judge.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Witkoff sat in a row of hard wooden benches often occupied by people aiming to make public displays of support for Trump—J.D.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Some 2.2 million aspiring medical students sat for a re-examination under tight security last month after the previous test was scrapped following the leak of a question paper.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

“He would do a very good job,” Trump said of Sharaa, as the two leaders sat beside each other at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Turkey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

We entered a waiting room jammed with people and sat down under the watchful eyes of the soldier.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

It’s just enough to sate the palate until next week, when we find ourselves craving a treat once again.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

The startup says its discoveries can help sate the U.S.’s thirst for power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

You, all of you, have sitten still a good While.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

Ine sumer ȝe habbeð leaue uorto gon and sitten baruot. and hosen wið uten uaumpez . and ligge ine ham : hwo so likeð.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

I had sitten down by my uncle's fireside, and felt unwilling to rise.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

Sweet Willie and fair Annie Sat a' day on a hill; And though they had sitten seven year, They ne'er wad had their fill.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

This year, the council of Trent was dissolved, which had sitten from 1545.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David

When you’re sitting up or standing, it makes you strain, and the higher you sit, the worse it is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Lord Justice Popplewell, sitting with Mr Justice Hilliard, ruled on Wednesday that the EA only being able to prosecute environmental offences would "produce unreasonable and anomalous results".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Putting the sitting president’s face on coins would be a dramatic departure from U.S. tradition.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The bank calculates that households are sitting on $68 billion to $167 billion of potential equity investment capacity through the first quarter of next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

People from previous arrests were sitting or lying about on the mats, too, some of them faces we knew.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom