sit about
phrasal verb
sat about; sitting about; sits about
chiefly British
: to spend time doing nothing useful
He sits about and does nothing while I do all the work.
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The base sits about 1,200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle and 1,524 kilometers south of the North Pole.
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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
The Navy base sits about 30 miles north of downtown Chicago.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjust the straps so the helmet sits level, and the brow of the helmet sits about a finger-width above the eyebrows.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
The solutions to these mysteries could reveal much about how the Andromeda Galaxy — which is the closest large spiral galaxy to us, sitting about 2.5 million light-years away — formed and developed.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
The Navy base sits about 30 miles north of downtown Chicago.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjust the straps so the helmet sits level, and the brow of the helmet sits about a finger-width above the eyebrows.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
The solutions to these mysteries could reveal much about how the Andromeda Galaxy — which is the closest large spiral galaxy to us, sitting about 2.5 million light-years away — formed and developed.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Sit about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20about. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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