How to Use sit in a Sentence

sit

1 of 2 verb

• The bird sat on the ledge.
• She sat the toddler in the chair.
• The cat likes to sit by the window.
• She walked around the table and sat across from me.
• He was sitting in a chair next to the window.
• The children sat cross-legged on the floor playing a game.
• Don't just sit there—do something!
• She sat across from me during dinner.
• The limousine is sitting outside.
• Are you going to sit there and watch TV all day?
• That doesn't seem to sit with you.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• That bridge sits right over the drop off zone.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2025
• For now, this team will sit with a painful loss.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• This is still very much a sit-and-sip type of place.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
• Let sit for a minute and then wipe with a lint-free cloth.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
• Trays of shots sit waiting on the bar.
  — Tara Palmeri, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
• What good is sitting alone in your room?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
• Always sit with your back to a wall.
  — Gaby Iori january 27, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
• His refusal didn’t sit well with her.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
• Just sit there and don't say anything.
  — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
• But sitting side by side is not one of them.
  — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
• It’s been sitting there for years.
  — Sandy Peng, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• That's largely where the rate has sat for the past weeks.
  — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Let the paste sit for a few hours or overnight if desired.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
• Old and new still sit close enough here to speak to each other.
  — Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
• Such was the case with a sculpture that sits at one end of the pool.
  — Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2025
• To the right of the entrance sits a wet bar in front of a cozy den.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
• Close the oven door and let the paste sit for at least an hour and up to overnight.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
• The husband and wife sit side by side, hand in hand, their eyes shut.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
• Spritz, let sit for up to five minutes, and then wipe with a damp cloth.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 19 June 2026

sit

2 of 2 noun

• Complete three to four sets (one wall-sit equals one set).
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 18 June 2026
• Salmeron biked to the sit from her home in Woodlawn.
  — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
• Use these to make tough calls with players close in start/sit choices.
  — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• The couch passes the sit test with flying colors.
  — Emma Tubbs, Architectural Digest, 28 Apr. 2026
• Only so many quirky sits, bad raps, and yaoi overtones the show can endure.
  — Vulture, 19 Mar. 2023
• Keeping your legs on the ground, perform a sit-up, reaching for your toes.
  — Greg Presto, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
• The walking-to-sit method even worked in the daytime, the results showed.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
• Lali was still there, relaxing in a half-sit, half-side-sprawl, staring off.
  — Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• For a long sit, nothing beats a pop-up, hub-style ground blind and a comfortable chair.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2023
• Part of what makes it such an uneasy sit is its sincerity.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 6 Feb. 2026
• Metals such as iron and zinc sit at the core of many of the most ancient enzymes found across life forms.
  — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
• Challenge your teen to see who can run the fastest, do the most sit-ups or walk the most steps every day or week.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• During the sit-down, the mom of two opened up about her motherhood journey.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
• Kalanick wanted a peaceful sit-in or march in the city’s center.
  — Aaron C. Davis, Rick Noack and Douglas MacMillan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
• His cartoons were printed on large placards and carried at protests and sit-ins.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
• Next to her sits Isra, 19, anxious and due to give birth any day.
  — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026
• The inner lining pulls out for a sit pad in the backcountry, and for cleaning.
  — Outside Online, 23 June 2022
• The seat cushion is thick and comfortable for long sits, but sticks out and can be bulky if walking in tight brush.
  — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
• Georgia Tech’s odds to pull off the upset sit at a long +1100.
  — Catena Media, al, 2 Sep. 2022
• Commercial airplanes dart by, but one chartered flight sits parked away from the gates, a set of stairs pulled up to its open door.
  — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 6 Feb. 2026
• At the sit down the former architect and father of two confessed to killing eight women.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
• Last month, student activists ended a monthlong sit-in, vowing to file a lawsuit of their own.
  — Zachary Schermele, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The protesters appeared prepared for the long-haul – or at least an extended sit-in.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
• Strangers become co-conspirators in the art of fetch; compliments on a good sit-stay.
  — Eric Barton, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
• These days, the 007 sits idle while schools of fish nibble at the algae that grows on its barriers.
  — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• Here, several superlative sectionals that earned high marks in all sorts of sit tests.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
• Protestors are planning an around-the-clock sit-in at the Statehouse throughout the week.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2022
• College students were not the only participants in the sit-ins.
  — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 25 July 2022
• The First Sit There’s always something special about the first sit of the year on a bear bait.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 25 May 2023
• What the protesters repeatedly impressed on me was the fact that the tree-sit was not just about saving trees.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026