sit-in

NOUN
  1. a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move
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How To Use sit-in In A Sentence

  • Several thousand students staged sit-ins and protest marches.
  • He was also dubbed a sulker for staging a sit-in following a defeat at Birmingham two and a half years ago, while he quit Chelsea in 2006 with the club accusing him of threatening to score an own goal if he was not allowed to leave, something he vehemently denied. IcSolihull
  • Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit.
  • Several thousand supporters of a Pakistani party led by former cricket star Imran Khan were staging a sit-in Sunday on the NATO supply route near the northwestern city of Peshawar. Pakistanis, Angered by US Drone Strikes, Block NATO Supply Route
  • It said that the demonstrations, sit-ins and hunger strikes have the result of disrupting social stability.
  • Demonstrations and dharnas (sit-in protests) were held in all state capitals.
  • I arrived at the Exam Schools this morning to find that all lectures had been cancelled because of a derisible sit-in protest.
  • It's very apparent that there will be no security during the coming elections," said Mahmoud Fathy, a candidate from the Salafi Fadila Party, which supports the protesters but opposed the idea of a long-term sit-in. The Seattle Times
  • And leading secularist Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear watchdog chief turned dissident and presidential candidate, condemned what he called a "savage" attempt to disperse the sit-in. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • Traditional radical actions like sit-ins, mass protest, even riots are belittled as ‘spectacles with radium half-lives’.
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