How to Use sit-up in a Sentence

sit-up

1 of 2 noun
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  • Get some squats, push-ups, or sit-ups soon after the meal.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Think sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, crunches or squats, as examples.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • For sit-ups, male officers must do 37 in one minute and female officers 31.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Oprea and Kelsea do Bosu ball throws (or crunches on a Bosu ball while tossing a weighted ball to a partner), sit-up claps, side planks, and elbow planks.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 3 June 2023
  • Here are 4 things to know and how to treat them If your abdominal muscles are not strong enough to do good sit-ups, begin with crunches (partial sit-ups).
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
  • Sweating from push-ups, sit-ups and using a rowing machine is one thing, but a session at Hotworx is something else again.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 July 2023
  • The singer lifted weights on a sit-up bench with his spotter, also cooly rocking sunglasses indoors.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • With the Olympics in mind, van Gorp is breaking for up to two and a half hours each day, plus gym sessions and calisthenics – body-weight strength training like push-ups and sit-ups – in pursuit of winning gold.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Exercises like push-ups, squats, sit-ups, lunges, and planks can improve muscle endurance.
    — Jenny McCoy, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Every night a family member had to remain awake to monitor David, who would jerk into 30-minute frenzies of rapid sit-ups.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In the clip, the actress completes her full-body workout, which featured weight lifting, mountain climbers, push-ups, sit-ups, lunges, and more before finishing with some stretches.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • The moves included throwing punches while doing sit-ups, sparring at a fierce pace, dodging punches, and kicking her sparring partner in the abs.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In the video, Olympia (wearing a ruffled red dress) carefully lifts her baby sister (in holiday jammies) from the ground and lowers her back down, holding her hands the whole time — for a sweet version of baby sit-ups.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Keeping up with a consistent weight lifting routine can be tough, but 15 minutes of crunches, planks, sit-ups, and push-ups can be transformational.
    — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Kate usually kicks things off with a compound exercises that work two muscle groups at once (think: bicep curls with a squat and sit-ups with combination punches).
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This sit-up variation of a Russian twist strengthens rotational core movement and improves your ability to generate power from the core.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 2 June 2024
  • These include planks, crunches, reverse crunches, sit-ups, hanging knee raises, mountain climbers, scissor kicks, leg raises and bicycle kicks.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Kids can do traditional abdominal crunches, bicycle crunches, legs-up sit-ups, and more.
    — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 3 July 2024
  • Under current Secret Service qualification tests, male and female candidates are held under different fitness standards for push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, and the mile run.
    — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
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sit up

2 of 2 verb
  • The passing lane down the line was open, and the ball sat up for a clean strike.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • As Locke shifts his body to sit up, a gun is seen in his hand.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
  • New are options to prompt you to rest your eyes and to sit up straight.
    — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Think of your chimney as a tiny house that sits up on your roof.
    — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The two sat up front for the show, even sharing a kiss that was caught on camera!
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Clooney is shackled in the back of a prison van, with Lopez sitting up front.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Turn to sit up in the hammock or lie facedown, then turn over to face up.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2022
  • Turn to sit up in the hammock or lie facedown, then turn over to face up.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024
  • Holland stayed on the ground briefly, then sat up, went to the sideline briefly and returned for the next play.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2024
  • It’s described as suitable for all ages as long as the child is able to sit up.
    — Jessica Rach, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024
  • And some ideas have to sit up here (pointing to the head) for a while to gestate and become ready and right.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • To go back on his word -- and I'm supposed to sit up here and stand for a man who went back on his word?
    — ABC News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Lewis appears to sit up in bed and raise a hand in the moments before he is shot.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • For a sit-in at a lunch counter, they were told, sit up straight, be courteous and don’t strike back.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • The city sits up against the fence, next to Mexico, with homes and businesses.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Cure can be seen sitting up at times and flailing his arms.
    — Steve Almasy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Sarah sat up and back in a posture of intense alertness.
    — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • My only choice at that point was to sit up and wait for others to start working with.
    — Rob Reed, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Robertson said Aniya, now over 6 months old and sitting up, is deeply loved.
    — Sarah Kwon | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • After a week in the hospital, Harriet was too weak to sit up on the side of her bed.
    — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
  • When sitting up, don’t cross your legs, and sit with your back straight and supported.
    — Kristen Fischer, Health, 11 Oct. 2024
  • One morning my mentor and I sit up in the thickening grass.
    — Patrick Cottrell, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Two were sleeping, sprawled like giant house cats, but a third sat up and watched us through narrowed eyes.
    — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
  • The village of concrete and thatched roof dwellings sits up on a dune, so people there can catch cooling breezes in the summer.
    — Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • So if the Heat like a player enough to warrant longer looks, that causes observers to sit up and notice.
    — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
  • By his second day, therapists there helped Smith start to sit up.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
  • My girlfriend is sitting up in our bed looking at her phone.
    — Bela Shayevich, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Not even the Scout seemed bothered, sitting up tall in his chair with his hands folded neatly in his lap.
    — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • For a dozen eggs, ½ cup mayonnaise will make a smooth, creamy filling that can sit up high when spooned into the egg.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But occasionally, alarm bells will go off around us, and that's the moment for all of us to sit up and pay attention, and listen and learn, and then make the adjustments.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024

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