sit out
Example Sentences
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The answer to such a looming emergency, however, isn’t to sit out every fight until the big one.
“I just saw older people sitting out there,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
"This oil is sitting out there. It's not going to disappear," Imsirovic said.
From Barron's
Baker-Mazara had missed three games last month because of a knee sprain and sat out practices throughout the season because of nagging minor injuries.
From Los Angeles Times
Daoud said he expected Hezbollah to sit out the fight unless its patron was in existential peril, but added that what he called the group’s “measly opening salvo” made little strategic sense.
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