Sentence examples for sit from high-quality English sources.

• Just like the sit-down.

• Come sit, sit, and a song.   

• Sit-in, a tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience.

• In a proscenium arch theatre, the audience all sit facing the same way.

• It was, "Sit at the table."

• Their relative positions can be explained by where they sit within the bank.

• Solutions like the sit-stand desk, therefore, won't reduce the risk of heart disease for workers who sit all day.

• A tactic similar to the sit-in, the sit-down, has been used by unions to occupy plants of companies that were being struck.

Use sit in a sentence.

• Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960.

• …similar to the sit-in, the sit-down strike, has been used by unions to occupy plants of companies that they were on strike against.

• In truth, you can sit at the front, you can sit at the back, you can sit bang in the middle: it makes no difference.

• A tactic similar to the sit-in, the sit-down strike, has been used by unions to occupy plants of companies that they were on strike against.

• She bids the Kinsellas good evening and tells them to sit down—if they can find a place to sit—and fills the kettle from the bucket under the kitchen table.

• In other words, you should sit and stand for equal periods of time each day, or, at the highest ratio, sit for 15 minutes and stand for 45 minutes every hour.

• Although SNCC did develop out of the sit-in movement, becoming a permanent organization separate from CORE and the SCLC, the sit-ins faded out by the end of 1960.

• “She would sit on his lap and inspect his arm for ‘owies,’ and he would just sit there for ages and let Adele put Band-Aids all over his arms, and make her laugh.”

sit sentence examples

• On one occasion, he and a group of students boarded a racially segregated bus in Atlanta wearing traditional African clothes and were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted because they were not identified as African Americans, who had to sit at the back.

• But students will also have the option to sit an exam early in the next academic year - which starts in September - or they can appeal against their calculated grade if they feel it does not reflect their performance and choose to sit exams next summer.

• For example, Labour MEPs sit with an Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, most Conservatives sit in a group called the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, and the one serving Liberal Democrat MEP sits with an Alliance of Liberals and Democrats.

• Spectators, depending on how much money they had, could either stand in the yard, which may have sloped toward the stage, sit on benches in the galleries that went around the greater part of the walls, sit in one of the private boxes, or sit on a stool on the stage proper.