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A homeowner planting one today might wait more than a decade to sit in its shade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They are not just there to sit in in games, and they have got their reward.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Dressed in full pads, we were instructed to sit in dim, dead silence, staring straight ahead, while the stereo blared “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

You could also let the check sit on the table before reaching for it, Clayman suggests.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

The sand is never poured down the hole; the black powder and fuse sit exposed at the bottom.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Despite attending multiple after-parties that evening, Evans said they made sure to video call their parents who were sat at home in their dressing gowns.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The regulator warned that it couldn’t move ahead without the support of Mitsotakis, who two weeks earlier had sat next to Lagarde at a forum in a Greek beach resort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

All three defendants sat emotionless throughout the hearings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“He just sat there and ate it,” McKay would later testify.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

She came over and sat down at the table with us, her face drained of all color.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

That led him to the petroleum industry, where working on oil rigs in the punishing North Sea and near conflict zones helped sate his risk appetite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

While the network has tried to sate its audience, no “Ultimate Girls Trip” or “Simple Life”-esque spinoff has quite hit the mark like “RHONY” classic could.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

Dr. Trefusis did not note their absence, but as Bono sate himself down beside us, greeted him.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

After the Ambassadour with his gentlemen had sitten an houre and more, there came three or foure chauses, and brought them into the great Turkes presence.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

It is to unlettered people that we owe the disuse of holpen, bounden, sitten, and the use of the regular participles, swelled, helped, worked, in place of the ancient ones.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Bot, fader, now ye sitten hier 130 In loves stede, I yow beseche, That som ensample ye me teche, Wherof I mai miself appese.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

I had sitten down by my uncle's fireside, and felt unwilling to rise.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

This year, the council of Trent was dissolved, which had sitten from 1545.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

"What we found in patient samples was that intestinal cells are primed to die. Even in patients with essentially no symptoms, there's still this persistent problem sitting there."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Michelle Fennell was sitting at her desk when her right eye started feeling heavy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

And Pappas, a sitting congressman, should be a perfectly acceptable head of hair to complete the task.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026

But after sitting on its application for over two years, the RBI rejected the company's bid to get out of the framework earlier this month, pushing the group closer to a stock market debut.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He was breathing hard as he watched Renn sitting up.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver