sit around
Example Sentences
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But wait, you might object, the so-called reasoning models don’t just sit around doing nothing—they think for minutes, sometimes hours, on end!
From Slate • May 25, 2026
Barker: But at no point do we sit around and worry about who else has a higher offer for the movie.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
They sit around what resembles a school science lab sniffing coffee beans and slurping coffee so aggressively that there’s loud music playing to drown them out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
In the live, as the members sit around a table of food with a Christmas tree in the background, talk turns to how 2025 is ending and the new year is around the corner.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
Instead of taking care of them, she did almost nothing but sit around eating most of the food their mother had prepared.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
