sit up
Example Sentences
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But even though “Reminders of Him” isn’t a great film, it’s a door-opener, a movie that will make both studio heads and screenwriters sit up and listen.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
Markets typically shrug at geopolitical shocks, but this time they might have to sit up and pay attention.
From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026
Mr Leitch said many providers "adopted good practices" before but the guidance and the Steeper family's campaigning had "basically made this a mandatory obligation, and therefore everybody will sit up and take notice".
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
The MGM brass realized, Mr. Eyman writes, that “she possessed something valuable—an electric charge that made an audience sit up and take notice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
He sent his body servant Morton to sit up with the corpse.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
