(v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
(v. t.) To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
(v. t.) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
(v. t.) To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
(v. t.) To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
(v. t.) To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.
(v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
(v. t.) To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
(v. t.) To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
(v. t.) To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
(v. t.) To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
(v. t.) To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
(v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To suit (well / ill); to become.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(4) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(5) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
(6) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(7) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(8) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(9) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(10) The inverse relation between PGE2 and NE for the difference in hormone concentrations between supine and sitting (r=-0.44, p less than 0.05) may be explained by an inhibitory effect of PGE2 on renal NE release, earlier observed in experiments in vitro.
(11) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(12) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
(13) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(14) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(15) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(16) And it means the Foreign Office dealing with those in the Middle East and North Africa who are on the side of democracy and human rights, not sitting down to tea with torturers.
(17) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(18) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
(19) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
(20) On the 18th I will be sitting down to the university Christmas meal two hours after the results are passed on to me.
(1) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
(2) "On both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith they were very cagey about going public with the cast until the very last minute, as there were still negotiations going on up to the wire.
(3) He shot down rumours that Benedict Cumberbatch will play a role in the film but claimed Adam Driver would play a masked Sith-like character with cyborg elements.
(4) It has been a rumour ever since the houselights came up on the most recent Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith , in 2005.
(5) It has been suggested that not only does Disney plan to extend the Star Wars series itself (the most recent sixth film, Revenge of the Sith, was released in 2005), but that standalone films featuring other key characters – Yoda, Boba Fett or Jabba the Hutt – could also go into production.
(6) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the five finest fan theories Read more Darth Plagueis was first mentioned in the 2005 Star Wars film Revenge of the Sith, which many consider to be the least terrible of the much-maligned prequel trilogy.
(7) All seems simple enough: Jedis, Siths, deadbeat dads, emotional pregnancy, family reconciliation.
(8) Two patients experienced grand mal seizures after examination sith Amipaque.
(9) That sullen death-stare she perfected as April in Parks & Rec should come in handy somewhere on the dark side, perhaps as a female Sith Lord – a Sith Lady, if you will.
(10) Aspartate aminotransferase measurement sith pyridoxal phosphate supplementation was slightly more precise than without.
(11) The Sith are supposed to be long gone Some fans have suggested Plagueis’ supposed return tallies with The Force Awakens’ apparent shift towards new dark side orders, such as the mysterious Knights of Ren.
(12) The Han Solo film will reportedly portray a younger version of the sardonic space smuggler, and will be set in the period between 2005 prequel movie Revenge of the Sith and the film that introduced the character, 1977's Star Wars .
(13) It is suggested that the metabolic activities and meiotic potnetials of the various oocyte populations differ and as a result, care should be employed to insure a uniform population of oocytes when conducting further studies sith mechanically liberated oocytes.
(14) According to an art book for 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, Solo would have appeared in cameo as a 10-year-old boy who is raised on the planet Kashyyyk as the adoptive son of Chewbacca, later his co-pilot on the Millennium Falcon.
(15) In the past week, a YouTube user created this video , which suggests that John Williams’ musical theme for the “Darth Plagueis” seen in Revenge of the Sith is virtually identical to the one which was used for Snoke’s debut in The Force Awakens.
(16) However, all three movies found “success” via the Razzie awards, with wins in the worst supporting actor category for Ahmed Best as bumbling CGI alien Jar Jar Binks, and Hayden Christensen for his portrayal of moody Jedi Anakin Skywalker in both 2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith.
(17) The last live-action Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, also had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
(18) The wookiees were notably revived for 2005 prequel Revenge of the Sith, in which an entire army of the furry fuzzballs was seen defending its home planet of Kashyyyk.
(19) The sixth and most recent instalment in the series was 2005's prequel, Revenge of the Sith, which was given a mixed reception by critics but broke several box office records and was that year's second highest grossing film.
(20) Kylo Ren is important enough to get the Death March theme He’s clearly the movie’s main hulking, hooded dark lord of the Force, but Abrams has revealed in the past that Ren is not a Sith .