How to use "sat" in a sentence

Ned sat on a platform which was on top of the ship

Alice and her big sister sat under a tree one sunny day

'That didn't hurt,' she said and sat up quickly

The little girl sat down and cried.

She sat down and began to cry again

He sat for a long time with his finger in his mouth

When they finished their chocolates, they sat and looked at Alice.

She sat down and started to cry again

She sat down

Inside, a large, ugly woman sat with a baby in her arms

The Mouse sat between the Mad Hatter and the March Hare

She sat down in a chair at one end of the table.

They sat on big chairs above all the animals and birds

Alice found a place and sat down

He got up and sat in a different place.

She sat up and told her sister about the White Rabbit and the rabbit-hole

I went and sat with her, and she remembered me!

I sat and listened to him

I was really happy, and I went and sat under a tree and played all day.

Jenny saw me and smiled, and I sat on the floor and listened

So I sat down and waited for five or six hours.

There were a lot of people waiting to go in, so I went round to the back of the place and sat on the ground

She sat down across my legs and put her arms round me

She listened quietly, then opened the car door for me to get in, and we sat and talked.

She went and sat under a tree on the grass, and began eating an apple

Back at our hotel, the three of us sat in our room and tried to decide what to do.

Sue and I got off the bus at Savannah, then I went and got a cup of coffee and sat outside the bus station

Jenny sat next to me while the little boy started playing with Sue.

The boy came and sat down

That night I sat up thinking

Mr Slinkton sat down in my office and wrote the reference for Mr Beckwith

Suddenly she sat down near a rock on the beach

I went back to the rock and sat down

Then he sat on some stone steps and took off one of his boots, which was hurting his toe

The stranger smiled with relief and sat down by the fire

He sat up, swung his feet to the floor and slowly stood up

Finally, as evening fell, he sat on the ground, exhausted, and gazed across the fields at the distant mountains, wishing that he was back in prison

Finally he stopped and sat, exhausted, on a rock

Their mother - a big, red-haired woman with a plain face - sat on the doorstep of the inn, watching them.

'When the young woman had sat down next to her, the red-haired woman introduced herself

She sat on her bed, cold and shivering, and looked at the two coins shining on the table

He sat by her bed for an hour and then, having told the nurses to look after her, he returned to his home

Madeleine sat by the bedside and watched Fantine while she slept

Fantine suddenly sat up

While guests and visitors ate and drank noisily, Cosette - now eight years old - sat in her usual place under the kitchen table

He sat down and Cosette, after serving him some wine, returned to her place under the table

After hugging and kissing their mother, they sat on the floor by the fire and played with a doll

He lit a candle and sat by the bed, watching her while she slept

He sat in his chair with his back to the door and held his breath

They always sat next to each other on the same bench

He did not go back a third time, but sat down on a bench at the opposite end of the Gardens

He returned the next morning and sat on a bench all day, pretending to read a book, not daring to go near the bench where the girl and her father were sitting

A large woman with greying hair, once red, was sitting by the fire, while a thin, pale-faced child sat on one of the beds.

Marius sat down and buried his face in his hands, too overcome by emotion to think clearly

Back in his room, Marius sat down nervously on his bed

'Never mind.' He sat on the bed next to the helpless but brave old man, and said, 'Let's discuss things quietly

Thenardier sat on the corner of the table in silence for some moments, swinging his leg and gazing with a fierce satisfaction at the fire

Cosette sat down and began to read, enjoying the music of the language and the beauty of the handwriting

She sat on the bench where she had found the notebook and, moments later, had the strange feeling that she was being watched

Afterwards, they sat together on the garden bench in a state of shock, neither of them speaking

He called her name again and again until, exhausted, he sat down on the stone steps

The barricades were finished in less than an hour and, with the sound of drums in the city growing louder, Enjolras brought a table out into the street and sat down with his friends for a drink.

Marius sat next to her

He went out into the night and sat on the doorstep, his heart filled with a terrible hatred for the man who was trying to steal Cosette from him

He sat for a long time listening to the sound of distant gunfire in the city, wondering how to get his revenge, when suddenly he heard footsteps

Thenardier sat down and told Marius about the time he had helped Valjean to escape from the Paris sewer.

They sat down to eat their taste-pots, looking out at the beautiful view and watching the waves roll up the shore

She gave Cham a package, then sat watching his expression as he slowly opened it.

Then they changed to a sunny park, like the ones that their city used to have, and sat down to talk.

"Something is wrong, isn't it?" asked Gran, as they sat in the Real Space

She sat on the edge of her bed, worrying

They all sat down to eat and talk together

Sala sat up hurriedly, and opened the message

She sat down and hugged her knees.

Then he came and sat next to her

Then she sat down and covered her face with her hands

Sala sat down on the sofa, and Wena sat next to her.

Sala engaged her virtual interface and sat waiting for him.

Then they sat around the kitchen table, looking expectantly at Sala

Completely hopeless, Sala thought as she sat finishing her green tea

When the ultranet interface went dead, she sat quietly for a moment

At the pod center, the next day, Sala sat in the shadow of the huge hologram, waiting

Cham's parents and sisters sat next to her, talking quietly, but she didn't join in

Cham sat down and looked at the pictures that his sisters had drawn for him, then answered his parents' questions about the tests

Mrs Van Hopper sat down at her usual table and stared at everyone in the restaurant.

I sat on a window seat, looking at the bright day outside

I sat down awkwardly trying not to look at him

We ordered our food and sat for a time in a pleasant, easy silence.

I sat very still

I sat down at the table.

I sat with my hands in my lap, watching him drink his coffee.

I sat there, staring at him

I sat back in my seat

He went first to Maxim and then sat down beside me

Maxim sat in a chair by the fire reading the letters that had been waiting for him

After dinner, we sat in the library

Maxim sat in the chair to the left of the fireplace.

Someone else had sat in my chair

I sat down and opened the Guest Book

A servant brought rugs and chairs and we all sat under the great tree on the lawn

Here we sat together, Maxim and I, hand in hand

I sat in the library after my visitor had gone

I suddenly sat up straight

I sat on the long seat under the window

As I sat there I felt happier than I had ever been at Manderley

I sat down on the stool by the dressing-table

'I sat on my bed until after five

As we sat in the drawing-room eating cake and sandwiches, one of our visitors suddenly said to Maxim, 'Oh, Mr de Winter

I sat up, looking straight in front of me.

Wherever I walked, wherever I sat, I saw Rebecca

I sat on the cliffs for a long time doing nothing, thinking of nothing.

As I sat drinking my tea, Robert came back into the room.

I sat down

I sat on the terrace until I heard Captain Searle's car drive away

He sat down on a chair and I went and knelt beside him.

I sat on the floor, staring at him.

Do you remember? She sat there in the car and told me terrible, evil things about herself

I sat and watched it go down.'

We sat there together for some minutes without saying anything

I sat there, listening to the sound of Maxim's voice

I sat at Maxim's feet, my head against his knees

He opened the door for me and I went in quietly and sat down

I went downstairs and sat with Jasper in the library.

I sat down

I sat beside Maxim and Colonel Julyan got into the back.

She spread a thin skin of peanut butter on them, poured a glass of nonfat milk, and sat at the table.

Tina Evans sat straight up in bed, certain that she had heard a noise in the house

She sat straight up in bed.

As she sat up in bed, she switched on the lamp

Tina sat in one of the third-tier booths, nervously sipping ice water as she watched her show.

Shortly before noon, two high rollers from Dallas sat down at a blackjack table and, in three hours, lost a quarter of a million bucks; they were laughing and joking when they left the table to try another game

Helen Mainway, Charlie's wife, sat at his left side

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

Alone now on the third floor, she sat in the pool of amber light at her desk, surrounded by shadows, yawning

She went to Angela's desk, sat in her chair, and switched on the computer

They sat on the beige sofa, more in the shadows than in the glow from the lamps

For a moment, they sat in silence, sipping cognac.

He picked up his brandy snifter from the low table in front of the sofa, and he sat on the edge of her desk

She sighed and sipped some cognac and sat on the edge of the couch

Elliot returned to the couch and sat beside her

She leaned forward, put her brandy snifter on the table, and for a moment sat with her face in her hands.

So it'll work out for the best either way." She returned from the window, sat on the couch again, beside Elliot

Tina went to the bar and sat on one of the three stools, across the counter from Elliot

They sat side by side on the sofa in front of the fireplace, watching the flames and the occasional bursts of orange sparks, listening to music, and talking, talking, talking

She sat straight up, the sheets knotted in her fists, catapulted out of a nightmare

She took the graphic novel out of the carton and sat on the edge of the bed in the tarnished-copper sunlight that fell like a shower of pennies through the window.

He sat stiffly behind the wheel, clenching his teeth, wondering if a bullet would crack through the windshield and shatter his face.

Elliot and Tina sat as far from everyone as possible, in the last booth in the short wing of the restaurant.

Michael sat at the kitchen table with him and dealt blackjack

Alexander went to the huge maple desk and sat behind it, in Kennebeck's wing chair.

In the car again, with the doors locked and the engine running and the heater operating full-blast, they sat in stunned silence, basking in the warm air, but shivering nonetheless.

As he sat in the dimly lighted cabin of the fan-jet and watched the clouds racing below, Alexander wondered what his father and his uncles would say if they knew that his service to his country had often required him to issue kill orders

Blinking sleepily, he sat up

With the pen, she returned to the bed and sat beside the open map.

Elliot pulled a chair beside the bed and sat

Elliot and Tina spread the map on the table and sat down across from each other.

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

Alexander suddenly realized what their edge was, what kept them going, and he sat up straight in his chair

A curly-haired man with a bushy mustache sat at one of the tables

He sat down, pale.

Tina pushed down the railing and sat on the edge of the bed and carefully pulled Danny into her arms

The young man sat down, and put his wet feet near the fire

Sherlock Holmes sat silently, and watched the fire

Lettice sat down on the sofa

I sat down between Miss Marple and Miss Wetherby.

We had just sat down to breakfast when she appeared at the door

I opened the glass door and she stepped inside and sat down with us

I opened the sitting room door and on the sofa beside Griselda, sat Gladys Cram, Dr Stone's secretary.

'Imagine,' I said, 'that at about 6.30 Colonel Protheroe sat down to write that he couldn't wait any longer

As I sat there, I heard footsteps outside, they paused for a minute, then went away

As we sat down, I told him that we now knew the time of the shot.

We sat down.

Here Protheroe had sat when he had been shot

'But you know,' she sat up, 'unless the real murderer is found people will always think it was Lawrence

That evening, as I sat down to dinner, Griselda said, 'Oh, I forgot to tell you, Len, this note arrived for you when you were out.'

I had just sat down at my desk again, when the doorbell rang

Then I sat down and read the anonymous letter again.

I remember how I sat there in the blackness, not suspecting the meaning of the tiny light I had seen and all the trouble that it would cause me

Eventually I sat up, strangely puzzled

I went into the dining-room, sat down, and told her the things that I had seen.

I let myself into my house and locked the door, walked to the bottom of the stairs and sat down, shaking violently.

Then suddenly he sat down at the table, put his head on his arms and began to cry like a little boy

I sat up, and at the sound of my movement he looked at me.

While the curate had sat and talked so wildly to me in the flat fields near Walton, and while my brother was watching the refugees pour across Westminster Bridge, the Martians had started to attack again

The younger lady sat beside him and made the horse move.

The two women sat in silence.

We sat in the kitchen in the dark and had a meal of cold food, and just before midnight there was a blinding flash of green light followed by the loudest bang I have ever heard

I sat up.

We both sat in complete silence, so we could hardly hear each other breathing

All day and all night we sat face to face

I crawled into an open space in the bushes and sat down.

I sat staring in front of me, trying without success to find a way of arguing against him

We sat looking at each other.

I sat and thought about these things

The stair carpet was discolored where I had sat, wet to the skin from the thunderstorm on that first terrible night

The man then took off his hat, and sat down on a chair.

After hearing this strange story, Holmes sat silent for a few minutes, thinking

That evening, George, William Harris and I sat in my room

As we all sat there dreaming, Harris said, 'What happens if it rains?'

George sat in the armchair and Harris put his feet up on the table.

I sat on the big suitcase to close it

I sat on the big suitcase again to close it

I sat down to watch.

George stepped on a big packet of butter, and Harris sat on it

We sat and smiled at each other

Harris sat up suddenly and Montmorency fell off the bed

Then he sat down by the stove and mixed them with a fork.

I sat on the river bank near Runnymede

Then we sat back and felt happy and kind.

She sat down and the door closed with a smooth little sound as the car slid away.

She sat up

I climbed out of the window and moved along a narrow ledge to the library roof, where I sat down

After a few minutes of intense thought, he sat down again and said, 'What I'm going to tell you now is a secret, and I could be killed for telling it to you

She sat in a seat for "coloured" people

White people sat in the front of the line, and black people had to sit behind it