How To Use Sit around In A Sentence
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He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
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Once we hit our eighties the temptation is to stay indoors and just sit around.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I'll bet he doesn't sit around in an undershirt, scratching himself.
MR STARLIGHT
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He could sit around in bars all day and half the night, swapping stories with other boatmen.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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If you wanted to sit around, listen to George Michael and have some drinks while gasbagging about why not stay at home and pop his greatest hits on the stereo.
You Gotta Have Faith
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We all sit around the table and I listen to the chatter and gossip about what's been going on that week.
The Sun
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Your choice to ignore your responsibilities and then sit around gruffly barking at passersby is just that, your choice.
Think Progress » Dick Morris: ‘Civil War Is Progress’ In Iraq
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It's fresh and zingy, but this is a dish that curtsies to south-east Asian rather than Anglo-Indian cuisine, and on a practical note I'm not sure how long it would be happy to sit around on the buffet table.
How to cook perfect coronation chicken
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It's not like we sit around twiddling our thumbs.
The Sun
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We all sit around the table and I listen to the chatter and gossip about what's been going on that week.
The Sun
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All he did that evening was sit around the flat.
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We are a village of people meddlesome in deliberating as well as pity knowledge relating to NYC Transit as good as transit around New York City as well as around a world.
When Is Black Friday? - NYC Transit Forums
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Hamilton and I've got to say the long passages where they sit around talking about sex ends up edging closer and closer to the long philosophical passages in the Marquis de Sade, where everyone's just sitting around naked talking and sipping hot chocolate with cantharides in it in preparation for the next bout of sexual excess.
Cat Rambo
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I'm not going to sit around some map room and micromanage the war.
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Eve isn't the type to sit around doing nothing.
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They need to ride their bikes and play hopscotch or just sit around with a few buddies playing video games or watching movies.
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How can you dislike a town whose main plaza is known as Marimba Park where free marimba concerts are held every weekend while locals sit around eating ice cream or drinking beer and enjoying the pleasant cool tropical evenings?
Driving From San Crist�bal de Las Casas to Lake Chapala
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Rather than sit around and hope his number didn't come up, Don enlisted in the US Air Force, where he was trained as an instrument technician, and then scored overseas postings in Japan and Korea.
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We all sit around the table and I listen to the chatter and gossip about what's been going on that week.
The Sun
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The men who built barrels—one of the major industries of the early American economy—were normally paid for six days of work, but on Saturday they began drinking beer in the morning, then would “sit around upturned barrels playing poker,” and generally “lounged about” until they received their weekly pay.
A Renegade History of the United States
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That doesn't mean you sit around for two years staring at each other's watches waiting for the chance to hop in the sack.
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I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea.
The Sun
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It was so lovely to sit around the fire, drink wine, eat good food, and talk about stuff that didn't involve critiquing each other's work!
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I am mostly healed, my lady, thanks to your sorcery, and I will not sit around the liedburg and be thought a useless old dodderer.
Darksong Rising
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Time your visit around the full moon for best results.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wanted to sink my teeth into a challenge, not sit around twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next lecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wanted to sink my teeth into a challenge, not sit around twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next lecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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They would sit around the table at night playing cards, nattering away in Italian and Anglo-Italian " pidgin ".
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Life's too short to sit around moping.
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Sales staff sit around eating from takeaway boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Time your visit around the full moon for best results.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's easy to sit around and theorize, but the reward is in the action.
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Time your visit around the full moon for best results.
Times, Sunday Times
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People sit around a tall circular basket with a flat top, where the large, round, thin sourdough bread called injera is laid and the various foods are put down upon it.
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Not all jazz music is made by balding musicians who sit around over copious whiskies discussing the wonders of a middle eight.
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When I first came to Japan they were the cheap night out, with bright, glaring strip lights, loud music, easy point-at-the-picture menus, big spaces for a dozen gaijin to sit around and complain about work and big, cheap beers.
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I suppose that we should take a breather for now, after all we shouldn't sit around worrying or we'll go crazy.
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He said the only way to deal with serious issues was to sit around the table and negotiate.
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We did what we do in Minnesota, which is sit around a card table and play cards and drink wine.
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I can sit around with a word processor and hate everything.
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She likes to read and then sit around and think (or walk on a treadmill and think), but hasn't yet figured out a way to make a lot of money doing that.
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But as long as we're engineering ourselves to have chlorophyll, maybe we could add in THC, and sit around clipping our hair and toenails and smoking it.
INTERVIEW: Paolo Bacigalupi
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Do you all sit around a big table drinking expensive brandy and smoking massive cigars?
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We can't just sit around, we have to do something a bit special to get people to notice us.
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I wanted to sink my teeth into a challenge, not sit around twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next lecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the monsoons the ferries stop plying and the Gateway looks a trifle forlorn without the seething crowds that normally sit around it, shooting the breeze when the weather is gentler.
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Sit around a lot playing computer games such as scrabble or casino games while thinking about what constructive things you should be doing.
Janice Taylor: The Best 'Stay Fat' Strategies
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All he did that evening was sit around the flat.
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I like the big, strong, epic effect in the theatre a lot more than plays in which people sit around carping at each other.
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Try and get some of the young players in the league to sit around after a game and rehash the plays.
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We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
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We retire into the cabin to eat by candlelight, then come back out to sit around the fire and talk.
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I have a whole rant about my sister's presence and the waste of money it was to bring her here to do nothing but sit around and watch television, but that's been said and done already.
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I don't pay you to sit around all day doing nothing!
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I will not sit around on my fundament while they go out there, maybe get hurt or killed!
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I don't think anyone should sit around and say, ‘I don't care that people who live in the boondocks and are dialing in over a modem can't access my site.’
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And you can sit around and wait, but you're never going to see 59 years of devotion and a love that changes its colorization and its meaning over that 59-year period of time, but always remains unconditional.
Dear John, Dear Abigail: A Love Story Through Letters
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Foolhardily, Ash, Scott, and their girlfriends sit around one night and listen to passages from the book recorded on an old reel-to-reel tape deck by an elderly professor.
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It feels good to have taken a break and come together with some like-minded people (even it is a common fault of expats everywhere that they sit around tables bitching about the local population).
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Time your visit around the full moon for best results.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remember sleepovers and campouts where you'd sit around a fire and tell scary stories in a Round Robin?
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My wife came with us last week, which is quite rare, since Frank and I have a tendency either to sit around discussing the exact stipple technique he used in the 1720s.
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Four years is a long time to sit around thinking about one's little wifie... `
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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For starters, when the characters sit around effusing about Yelena's beauty, she flits among them in an airy gown and broad-brimmed hat that hides her inclined face.
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The new system, called alternate weekly collection, means rubbish will sit around for up to 14 days at a time before dustmen take it away.
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It's like having an incredibly monotonous and dull job where you sit around doing virtually nothing in complete silence.
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I could tell you how wonderful it was to sit around a campfire and sing all those old songs.
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Seven of us sit around the bar table rapt, trying not to geek out over the fact that we're having a beer with fark.com's one and only Mustard Man.
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Not pseudo, wanna be, suburban Sunday bikers, but rather, real hard-core hog riders; the kind of guys who look like they sit around with dirty nails, unwashed hair and bad teeth - a blunt dangling from chapped lips - downing shots of tequila and planning their next gangbang.
Was It The Gang Or the Bang I Desired?
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Pym shows absolutely no surprise at the notion that he is to encoffin himself and sit around in the dark for a few days; it is treated as an entirely routine part of stowing away.
Kaleidoglide
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Only, as you do nothing but sit around and read, I thought you might have happened on something that would throw light on the question of annulled liens, which is intricately involved and has an important bearing on this case.
Warner and Wife
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You think I've got time to sit around doing something utterly futile and pointless?
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It's not like we sit around twiddling our thumbs.
The Sun
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Don't sit around moping when you could be get things finished!
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But they sit around like a bunch of jukeboxes in a private honky-tonk, playing the same sad country songs.
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I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea.
The Sun
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Thinking about the danciest foyer I've ever clicked my heels in reminds me of other family gatherings, where the grownups would sit around the table, playing cards and gambling for coin.
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather.
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Why should I do all the donkey work while you sit around doing nothing?
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Sales staff sit around eating from takeaway boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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And she says they often sit around the dining table together to complete homework or revise.
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If you ask me these cry babies are simply looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, but surely there are smarter ways to embarrass yourself than to sit around blubbering in an empty football stadium.
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I'm far too busy to sit around here.
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Life's too short to sit around moping.
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Smokers sit around and smoke, lend each other their cigarettes, always need an extra few minutes before going out to finish their fag while us non smokers just sit there politely breathing in their fowl exhalation.
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I have since purchased exact, working replicas of Jerry and Knuck, which sit around my house and do a great job of scaring my maid every single time she walks into the room.
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The eccentrically shaped, whirly, hairy seedheads will sit around for the rest of the year.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's a needler, an observer, a conversationalist who will sit around all afternoon and talk about the game.
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I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea.
The Sun
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She guessed that he didn't sit around thinking about daisies and bubbling creeks all day.
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Are you just going to sit around on your duff all day?
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I know you all love me, but I need to do something, not sit around her like a codfish in a tank.
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We'd sit around the magazine guffawing at the ludicrous stories that kept sprouting, but belief in shadowy neocon influence has now hardened into common knowledge.
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It's not like we sit around twiddling our thumbs.
The Sun
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Well, the American people don't sit around the table waiting with bated breath for the president to speak.
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And yet the writers and the studios remain convinced that the public will sit around and wait for them to stop feuding.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're in several sections with 20-30 minute breaks in-between, during which the testees would sit around chatting.
The Doctor is in, but I am OUT
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You don't need specialists in one or two areas to sit around a table and come up with a good product," says Guhl, "You need a number of different specialists, sometimes having knowledge of a numerous disciplines - such as mechatronics engineers - speaking the same language.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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They sit around in the house for an undefined period… going nowhere, getting in the way, getting gradually more and more damaged until they are unsellable.
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I take two or more bikinis / swimming costumes when I go on holiday as its nice to change into a dry suit rather than sit around in a wet one and get all sandy.
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When I blaze up a doobie, all that happens is, I get a little monged out, extremely hungry and mostly sit around giggling at pretty much everything!
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Harriet has been kicked out of her French lover's Greenwich Village apartment on the fairly reasonable basis that she is an acid-tongued slugabed who does nothing but sit around watching quiz shows and insulting his friends.
After Claude by Iris Owens – review
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They sit around chewing cigars, drawing maps of places not yet named, fancying themselves victors in a war yet to be fought against an enemy yet to be named.
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Others sit around and talk or sing.
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We had to go through what I call the coffeehouse period, where for a while we sort of said, "Let's just sit around with the troops and talk about stuff and let's be buddies.
My American Journey
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We usually get there early and sit around waiting for ages to soundcheck, my stomach gently knotting and unknotting with impatience.
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When I blaze up a doobie, all that happens is I get extremely hungry and mostly sit around giggling at pretty much everything!
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I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea.
The Sun
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Your social life will probably be hopping this year, and you're not one to sit around and wait for an invite.
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We'd sit around the magazine guffawing at the ludicrous stories that kept sprouting, but belief in shadowy neocon influence has now hardened into common knowledge.
January 2004
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Amused by the tone that he knew held no jokes in it, the ring of the doorbell released him of his job of having to sit around and say nothing out of politeness, he stood.
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As if we're all going to sit around and say things like "squiffy," tosser "or" wanker "- although we can think of a few who deserve that last moniker.
Beaumont Enterprise Blogs
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I know I make it appear that I sit around all day wondering what my own skull looks like and prevaricating (and there is a fair amount of that, I have to say) but I do actually work quite hard.
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We usually get there early and sit around waiting for ages to soundcheck, my stomach gently knotting and unknotting with impatience.
