sit tight
Example Sentences
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Maybe the best thing for you to do is to just sit tight until SpaceX has a trading history.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
"Originally we thought 'Well, that seems expensive, let's sit tight for five minutes and see what happens'," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
The message to her is that if there isn’t anything good out there to buy, investors should just sit tight and be patient— such as bide time in T-bills.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025
Now, he said he knows to sit tight through market downturns, and the value of his portfolio has grown to five figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Or should they just sit tight and let this terrible thing happen the way terrible things had been happening now ever since the 1848 war, trusting that, like Amarante Cordova, they could somehow, miraculously, survive?
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
