sit still
idiom
: to sit without moving around
You can't expect young children to sit still for that long.
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And the truth is, opportunities don’t sit still.
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Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of elementary school students did their best to sit still and stay pin-drop silent as first-grade teacher Stephanie Lane made her way into the lunchroom Thursday.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025
Each family had been given a private room to await the reunions, but the relatives couldn’t sit still.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
But even younglings with a limited attention span, who can't sit still for an entire feature film, will forever have a connection to the screen icon who died Tuesday at the age of 89.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
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Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of elementary school students did their best to sit still and stay pin-drop silent as first-grade teacher Stephanie Lane made her way into the lunchroom Thursday.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025
Each family had been given a private room to await the reunions, but the relatives couldn’t sit still.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
But even younglings with a limited attention span, who can't sit still for an entire feature film, will forever have a connection to the screen icon who died Tuesday at the age of 89.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Sit still.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20still. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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