How to Use sit around in a Sentence

sit around

phrasal verb
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  • On their last night, the team sat around a bonfire in the backyard.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Shit’s gotta sit around for a minute … fine-tune it, perfect it.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • Sh–’s gotta sit around for a minute … fine-tune it, perfect it.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 25 July 2023
  • At the time of this writing, Apple’s share price sits around $173.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The would sit around a table and go through the previous day’s game.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • This doesn’t mean your team should just sit around and think about your vision.
    — Jeff Dudan, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Plus, who wants to sit around waiting to charge to 100 percent?
    — Emme Hall, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
  • Who are the six people who would sit around that table with you?
    — Anne Sugar, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The two were sitting around one night when the idea for a grander adventure came to Hazelip.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, there was a lot of sitting around the table in silence.
    — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This latter means the sound appears to move with you, sitting around and just ahead of you.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • One of my pet peeves is: Don’t sit around me or near me and then have your phone at full volume.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • But ancient cave dwellers weren’t sitting around the fire quaffing crisp lagers and hazy IPAs.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Frustrated, Díaz didn’t want to sit around and wait for his next move.
    — Rosy Alvarez, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2024
  • Had a bottle of Irish Whiskey that had been sitting around, so used it in place of the Bourbon.
    — Elizabeth Heiskell, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Groups can be seen sitting around fires, while others walk around the beach.
    — Katie Polglase, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • If your buns have been sitting around for a few days, toast for a fresh texture.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One of the rarest modern Jaguars is just sitting around waiting to be bought.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Guests can sit around it and enjoy the sounds of DJs spinning nightly.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Stop doing shows and sit around, and watch TV, and turn into a vegetable?
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • The longer raw fish sits around in a kitchen, the higher the likelihood of food poisoning.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The Duchess, 64, is a regular guest on chat shows and earlier this year sat around the table on The View.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Spunky Ava, who dreams of becoming a surgeon and traveling the world, is not the kind to sit around and mope.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Apple’s Vision Pro aims to change all this, to be the kind of headset people will sit around and watch 3D movies in.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And all the food is put in one place, and in the Bedouin tradition, people sit around and eat with their fingers, sharing the same dish.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The kitchen table is now the center of the apartment and kids and adults often sit around it together.
    — Gay Gassmann, Architectural Digest, 26 July 2024
  • Unlike most travel pillows that just sit around your neck, the Pod wraps around your neck and head like a hood or space suit.
    — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
  • With one leaf up, four people can sit around the table for dinner with elbow room to spare.
    — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Things are getting worse, but there’s nothing worse than just sitting around waiting for the next horror.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The women sat around a table, each with their own platter of local cheeses — cheese curds included, of course — and glasses for sampling beers.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024

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