sit back
Example Sentences
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“I feel like we’ve always been so in the moment of creating and evolving and doing our work, it seems strange to sit back and do a sort of retrospective.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Agentic commerce is in its early days, but Vemana said he would rather be early and learn than sit back and wait for it to become more mainstream.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
“Don’t sit back and say, ‘I’ll do what I was doing before,’” Smith says.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
"There's some moments where you sit back and you just go, this is amazing," said Mosca after scoring an accomplished 43.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
Then he ordered the boys to sit back down.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
