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. 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 25 Jul. 2025.

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