sit

You sit in the bleachers or walk the sidelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

"I wouldn't have survived in this city if I didn't have the ability to sit, use Wi-Fi, and grab a coffee and feel like a part of society," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Ode engineers sit with audit leaders to map out the daily workflows of financial and tax accountants to gauge where to ramp up use of AI agents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“But we’re going to sit down, and Abdul’s going to have to demonstrate some serious outreach to Oakland County’s Jewish community.”

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

We sit across from each other, and the candlelight reflects off Grandma’s face, giving her a warm orange glow.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The brothers aren’t known to have spoken in years, and haven’t been photographed together since King Charles’s coronation in 2023, when Harry sat several rows behind his older brother at Westminster Abbey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

“My husband and I went away with our two children and we all sat down and discussed it.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

On Friday, they sat silently in the dock as the judges returned their verdict.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

There have been times, like during his triple century against Pakistan in Multan, when I have sat and admired that talent.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

As each woman reached a desk where some officers sat, she had to lay her blanket, pillowcase, and whatever else she carried onto a growing pile of these things.

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

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 travelling India press pack is large and unrelenting and Gill struggled to sate them.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

Once her hair was set, she would not disturb it, and sate sleeping in a chair, that it might not muss.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"Oft have I by thy cradle sitten, And fondly seen thee sleip;150 Bot now I gae about thy grave, The saut tears for to weip."

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

They had not sitten but a while, Certain, without leas-ing, There came two messengers out of the north, With letters to our King.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley

All who had sitten in any illegal high court of justice were disabled from bearing offices.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume

This chief might have sitten for the picture of a patriarch; his fine, serious, expressive countenance, large features, and long bushy beard, afforded a favourable specimen of his tribe.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish

And so they arose and did their homage, and when they were gone Merlin found in every sieges letters of gold that told the knights' names that had sitten therein.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory

“I think it’s a fiction that people are sitting on assets,” said Natalie Kean, managing director of health policy for Justice in Aging, an advocacy group.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

For one, this meant dealing with stale HeyDude products sitting in U.S. wholesale channels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

On the walk all along Fourth Street, she noticed families sitting on their stoops or porches and generally more people trying to beat the heat outside of their homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Both main crude contracts were down 2.3 percent, with the Brent benchmark sitting at $92 a barrel.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Moments later—and, as you can imagine, we had no arguments from Karli about this—we were lifting him up, and sitting him there astride Marlene’s neck.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo