sitting

Example Sentences

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Having five figures sitting in a high-yield savings account may seem like a loss compared to investing that money, especially for young people who have decades for their investments to compound.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

"At the end of the day people have to live somewhere," he said, adding that the building had been "sitting like that there for so long now, it's just becoming a bit of an embarrassment".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

She says she felt the stares of the press sitting behind her in the gallery, taking notes on her body language and her daughter Ashley’s sobs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

We’re sitting on opposite ends of an underwater “sea-saw.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Others, it seemed to me, came just to see him sitting there behind his workbench as he had for sixty years and to hear in the ticking clocks a world of order and reason.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom