sit around

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.

Examples of sit around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The neckline sits around $130-$133, and yesterday's move pushed decisively through that ceiling and into the prior highs above it. — Jay Woods, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026

When enterprise leadership sits around the table to greenlight a multimillion-dollar allocation, a market expansion or an operating model pivot, the room almost never breaks out into open conflict. — Susana Cabrera, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

The pay in Louisiana is bad, Allen said, sitting around $55,000 annually for a clinical dietitian job in a hospital. — Lauren Chan, STAT, 1 Sep. 2026

But sitting around doing nothing didn’t exactly fit his personality. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for sit around

• aboveground
• battleground
• belowground
• paperbound
• turnaround
• ultrasound
• underground
• wraparound
• abound
• aground
• astound
• background