sit about

phrasal verb

sat about; sitting about; sits about

chiefly British

: to spend time doing nothing useful

He sits about and does nothing while I do all the work.

Examples of sit about in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The city sits about 20 minutes east of the University of Notre Dame. —Mackenzie Matwick, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025

White was a resident of Kennesaw, which sits about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, the GBI said in a Saturday press release. —Mandy Taheri hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Aug. 2025

This hot rock blob, called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, or NAA, sits about 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the mountain range in New England and measures between 217 and 249 miles (350 and 400 kilometers) wide. —Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025

Fort Stewart sits about 35 miles southwest of Savannah and is home to more than 10,000 people, including military personnel, families and civilian Army employees. —Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for sit about

• roundabout
• runabout
• sauerkraut
• thereabout
• turnabout
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout