sit-in
Example Sentences
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Unverified footage has also emerged purportedly showing a peaceful sit-in protest at the capital's Beheshti University.
From BBC
At Tehran University of Medical Sciences, students held a march and a sit-in in solidarity with imprisoned students and other young detainees.
That summer, 1960, Jackson came home and led a sit-in at the library, his arrest a first taste of civil disobedience.
From Los Angeles Times
Once, she told me that she wanted to participate in a sit-in at the lunch counter of the Woolworth’s, a retail department store chain, on Main Street in Hampton.
From Literature
Rather than turning on their side, before staging a sit-in protest against the board after the game, West Ham supporters instead sensed a way back into it.
From BBC
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