How to use "sit" in a sentence

Now, will it hold my weight? I sit in the harness

I stand and chip for twenty minutes, then sit and rest for twenty minutes

I can now only sit for a few minutes so I take smaller sips every hour.

I have found the best way to sit and feel calmer in the warm air

After that, I sit again and it's not long before the visions return

I sit down and wait as a man jumps to the ground and walks towards me.

I sit behind the pilot and watch blood pour slowly down my arm.

When they saw Alice, they cried, 'No, no, you can't sit here! There isn't a place for you!'

It was time for me to get back to the bus station, but when I started to leave, the old man said, 'Why don't you sit down and finish this game with me?'

He looked up and saw me, and told me to sit down.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

But I do venture to suggest that it will be highly unconstitutional in the midst of this unconstitutional Government, - in the midst of a nation which has built up its magnificent constitution, - for the people of India to become weak and to crawl on their belly - it will be highly unconstitutional for the people of India to pocket every insult that is offered to them; it is highly unconstitutional for the 70 millions of Mohammedans of India to submit to a violent wrong done to their religion; it is highly unconstitutional for the whole of India to sit still and cooperate with an unjust Government which has trodden under its feet the honour of the Punjab.

'Why don't you sit down for a minute? You look tired

Madeleine was allowed to sit behind the judge's chair

They would sit and hold hands and talk, or just gaze into each other's eyes and smile.

Valjean would sit looking at Cosette in silence, or would talk about incidents from their past

So I push myself up and sit on the ground

To my left I see the short fat man sit down on the floor with his hands on his head; then Robin runs to the office and kicks open the door.

"What do you think?" Robin asks, and he tells him to sit at one of the tables.

"Can you pass me over the bag? Then you can come and sit here next to me," he says as casually as he can.

Branwell does not sit

With a full belly you can sit and watch this all day."

But they are better than the dirty old jeans and green jacket that are now in a bin behind the shop where they sit.

"Please, sit down," Edward says with a smile that shows early signs of infatuation.

He wants to sit down to look at them and moves closer to the edge.

He cannot sit down

The headmaster tells them to sit in the same voice he uses for his students.

The old woman two seats away from her does not look happy and she moves to sit in the seat next to Sarah.

"Gran! Are you OK?" Sala put an arm around her, and made her sit down on the little bench that looked over the city.

Come and sit," she said.

'You can't sit here now,' he said

Come and sit down

I was happy to sit next to him, to be alone with him

It was new for us to sit together quietly like this

I had thought that perhaps we would walk down to the sea, or sit under the great tree on the lawn.

But Frank did not sit in the morning room every day as I did

He did not sit at Rebecca's desk and touch the things she had touched

Even when we have visitors, you sit on the edge of your chair and say only "yes" and "no".'

Once, Beatrice came up to me and said, 'Why don't you sit down? You look like death.'

How do you think I've felt, watching you sit in her place, using the things she used? I hear the servants calling you Mrs de Winter

Please sit down,' he said.

This crowd wasn't able to sit on its hands and keep its cool.

Tina could no longer sit still

"Go over to the table and sit down."

"It's a lot, thirty or forty questions altogether, but it won't take long if you just sit down over there and cooperate."

"Now," Vince said, "counselor, are you going to walk over to the table and sit your ass down, or am I going to have to motivate you with this?" He gestured with his pistol again.

I'm not gonna answer any more questions, but I am gonna put a bullet in your crotch if you don't move over to the table and sit down."

So will you cool it? Just come over here, sit down, let me inject you, give us a few answers, and we can all get on with our lives

Now sit down at the table like a good boy."

"If you bastards want me to sit down at that table, you're going to have to drag me there."

"Put the gun aside, sit down, and don't make any trouble."

"Just sit down."

"Well, if you don't think I can, just sit back and listen

Considering the fearsome number of meetings I had to sit through, my per-hour wage penciled out at less than I would have made if I had taken a part-time job at McDonald's.

'Well, sit down,' said Holmes, 'and tell me about yourself.'

After dinner I took him up to my study where was a warm fire to sit by.

Then he told me to go and sit at the desk

Or did a Martian sit inside each, controlling it in the same way that a man's brain controls his body?

'I'll sit here,' he said, 'if I may,' and he got up on the front seat

I sit in my study writing by lamplight, and suddenly I see the valley below on fire again, and feel that the house around me is empty and lonely

We all sit around a warm fire and eat our meal.

Then we sit in silence

They sit down on the grass to rest and laugh

You told me to sit there

I can sit and look at it for hours

Some people sit and fish there all day

He went to sit at the other side of the boat, alone.

Let's just sit inside and talk.'

I can't sit and see her life going wrong without feeling it

She is famous because she did not stand up! When Rosa was a young woman, in many places in the USA, black people - who were called "coloureds" at that time - and white people could not sit together.

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

This meant that the white people could sit down.

Nancy became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons on 1st December 1919

What a nice surprise! Come and sit in the patio."