VERB
- settle into a comfortable sitting position
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be inactive or indifferent while something is happening
Don't just sit by while your rights are violated!
How To Use sit back In A Sentence
- The students seemed to offer another option for an administration already grappling with sabo -- teurs in Iraq and suicide bombers in Israel: to sit back and wait for a second Iranian revolution. Firefight Over Iran
- They spout rubbish and sit back while energy firms run riot. The Sun
- I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
- Other trainers may have more fancied runners but I can sit back and enjoy it. The Sun
- Polmayne was a stopgap, a stepping stone, a place in which to sit back and look around before starting afresh. THE MAIN CAGES
- So sure was I of Chris coming through with the loan approval that I'd begun patching up my apartment so I could get my damage deposit back when I moved out.
- It means we can never sit back on our haunches and think we have it made. Christianity Today
- We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
- Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners.
- The office was full of computers, and we had to sit back-to-back in long rows.
