How to Use sit-up in a Sentence

sit-up

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• Get some squats, push-ups, or sit-ups soon after the meal.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2023
• In the segment, Kilmeade did crunches and Jones did sit-ups with a 25-pound weight.
  — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• The nurse held down a button that made the bed hum and slowly perform a kind of sit-up.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• Sexiest Man of the Year winner, may have done a few sit-ups and crunches in his day — in full slow-burn mode?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
• Think sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, crunches or squats, as examples.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• During sit-ups, engage your core and complete reps slowly and with control.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 22 Oct. 2024
• For sit-ups, male officers must do 37 in one minute and female officers 31.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• There is also a fitness court with various stations for pull-ups, sit-ups and stretching.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2025
• The blue patch was given to kids who scored at or above 85% of the national percentile on the test’s five aspects (endurance run, shuttle run, sit-ups, sit-and-reach and pull-ups or push-ups).
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 4 June 2025
• After two years of hormones, the pushup and sit-up differences disappeared, although the trans women were still 12% faster.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
• Oprea and Kelsea do Bosu ball throws (or crunches on a Bosu ball while tossing a weighted ball to a partner), sit-up claps, side planks, and elbow planks.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 3 June 2023
• Here are 4 things to know and how to treat them If your abdominal muscles are not strong enough to do good sit-ups, begin with crunches (partial sit-ups).
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• These features give you more position options for moves like Russian twists, skull crushers, and sit-ups.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 4 June 2025
• Sweating from push-ups, sit-ups and using a rowing machine is one thing, but a session at Hotworx is something else again.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• Avoid exercises that require you to bear weight, such as push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and lifting weights, as these can worsen symptoms.
  — Emily Brown, Mph, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
• Started in the late 1950s by President Dwight Eisenhower, the fitness test evolved into five parts: curl-ups, a shuttle run, pull-ups or sit-ups, a sit-and-reach and a one-mile run.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 June 2025
• The singer lifted weights on a sit-up bench with his spotter, also cooly rocking sunglasses indoors.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• Afterwards, Love allegedly forced the 6-year-old to do push-ups, sit-ups, and jumping jacks, before the child collapsed, according to the statement.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• The boy has plenty to do each day of the war: jumping jacks, sit-ups, pushups, gorilla swings, and tree pose during breaks from reading and doing the math in workbooks scavenged from the rubble of his school.
  — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• With the Olympics in mind, van Gorp is breaking for up to two and a half hours each day, plus gym sessions and calisthenics – body-weight strength training like push-ups and sit-ups – in pursuit of winning gold.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Exercises like push-ups, squats, sit-ups, lunges, and planks can improve muscle endurance.
  — Jenny McCoy, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
• The same can be said of long-standing resistance training exercises and bodyweight movements like pull-ups, squats, push-ups and sit-ups.
  — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
• Other services will at times allow biking or rowing as a cardio substitute for the run; planks are now more widely used than sit-ups.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
• Every night a family member had to remain awake to monitor David, who would jerk into 30-minute frenzies of rapid sit-ups.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the clip, the actress completes her full-body workout, which featured weight lifting, mountain climbers, push-ups, sit-ups, lunges, and more before finishing with some stretches.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• According to Harvard Health, the test evolved over the years, but the version most people remember included five components: a one-mile run, pull-ups or push-ups, sit-ups, a shuttle run, and the sit-and-reach.
  — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Aug. 2025
• The moves included throwing punches while doing sit-ups, sparring at a fierce pace, dodging punches, and kicking her sparring partner in the abs.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• Exercises such as sit-ups or push-ups commonly target core strength.
  — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 7 Dec. 2024
• Some practice getting into character, while others do sit-ups and pull-ups to make their muscles pop.
  — Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2025
• For example, sit-ups to remove belly fat, or leg exercises to trim the thighs.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2025

sit up

2 of 2 verb

• Once in the version of the pose that works for you, sit up tall and breathe.
  — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2025
• The passing lane down the line was open, and the ball sat up for a clean strike.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• As Locke shifts his body to sit up, a gun is seen in his hand.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• New are options to prompt you to rest your eyes and to sit up straight.
  — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2022
• Think of your chimney as a tiny house that sits up on your roof.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Mama used to sit up [at night] and look out the windows.
  — Essence, 13 Feb. 2025
• The two sat up front for the show, even sharing a kiss that was caught on camera!
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• Clooney is shackled in the back of a prison van, with Lopez sitting up front.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• This is a wicked satire that would make Jonathan Swift sit up and take notice.
  — Barbara Ellis, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
• Turn to sit up in the hammock or lie facedown, then turn over to face up.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2022
• Turn to sit up in the hammock or lie facedown, then turn over to face up.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024
• Holland stayed on the ground briefly, then sat up, went to the sideline briefly and returned for the next play.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2024
• It’s described as suitable for all ages as long as the child is able to sit up.
  — Jessica Rach, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024
• And some ideas have to sit up here (pointing to the head) for a while to gestate and become ready and right.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• To go back on his word -- and I'm supposed to sit up here and stand for a man who went back on his word?
  — ABC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Lewis appears to sit up in bed and raise a hand in the moments before he is shot.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
• Griffin sat up in her chair to push back on Hegseth’s attack.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 26 June 2025
• For a sit-in at a lunch counter, they were told, sit up straight, be courteous and don’t strike back.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• My wife was sitting up in the stands with all the Team Canada wives and all our Team Canada staff.
  — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
• The city sits up against the fence, next to Mexico, with homes and businesses.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
• Cure can be seen sitting up at times and flailing his arms.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Mark lays back while smoking a cigar while Ripa sits up and chats with friends.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 1 May 2025
• The driver sat up front and the passenger squeezed in behind.
  — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
• Sarah sat up and back in a posture of intense alertness.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The person Joe had sent to watch the locality was sitting up on a hill and heard the noise.
  — Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
• One mom set up a full Mexican buffet, complete with a piñata—for a group of 6-month-olds who couldn't even sit up, let alone swing a stick.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Jan. 2026
• Aisha threw back the blanket and tried to sit up, but Olie raised a hand to stop her.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
• But there was something about the formation of these weather systems swirling across his screen that made Tangang sit up.
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
• The simplest type is the upright bike, where the user sits up straight and there isn’t any back support.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
• Stay on the opposite side until the vertigo goes away, and then sit up while keeping your head neutral.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Nov. 2025