sit around
phrasal verb
sat around; sitting around; sits around
: to spend time doing nothing useful
He sits around and does nothing while I do all the work.
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Just to try to sit around and enjoy the time with those guys.
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Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
While the price of sports teams has skyrocketed, the wealthiest potential buyers typically don’t have $1 billion in cash sitting around to buy these teams.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 18 July 2025
Much of the medical team sat around a conference table in Boston with Fajgenbaum; members of the tech team Zoomed in from London.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
So every glass is freshly processed, without sitting around in a tank.
—Jon Stojan, USA Today, 3 July 2025
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Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
While the price of sports teams has skyrocketed, the wealthiest potential buyers typically don’t have $1 billion in cash sitting around to buy these teams.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 18 July 2025
Much of the medical team sat around a conference table in Boston with Fajgenbaum; members of the tech team Zoomed in from London.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
So every glass is freshly processed, without sitting around in a tank.
—Jon Stojan, USA Today, 3 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for sit around
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“Sit around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20around. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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