How to Use sit around in a Sentence

sit around

verb
  • Don't leave food scraps sitting around.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
  • Where people are just sitting around who will and who won’t.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Up on their hind legs, sitting around me, staring at me.
    — Sabienna Bowman, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • So there just isn’t a pile of money sitting around these days.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • The mask is also designed to sit around the eyes rather than press on them.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
  • The body is not like, one organ does something and the rest just kind of sit around.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • But who sits around and enjoys cocktails at sunrise?
    — David Caraccio march 21, Sacbee.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Travelers no longer want to sit around and stare at a boarding screen for two hours.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
  • Large cacti and ceramics sit around the new white-walled space.
    — Jenna Thompson june 6, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
  • The low today will sit around 65 degrees.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Each of the customers will be sat around the sushi bar — there’s no table seating.
    — Jenna Thompson march 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That pre-ground coffee at the grocery store that’s been sitting around for god knows how long?
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • But my preferred form of drinking involved sitting around in dorm rooms.
    — Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
  • People just sitting around a boombox going yeah or no.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • To be able to sit around and laugh and drink wine and play Rummikub, that was fabulous.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • Now, the video drives are full, there are thousands of hours of footage sitting around, and no one is quite sure what to do with it.
    — Krish Kumar, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • On the first night, sitting around the table, everyone shared the reason for their stay.
    — Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Brent crude was sitting around $94 a barrel on Tuesday.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • This doesn’t mean elite parents sit around plotting class reproduction over brunch.
    — Rob Henderson, Washington Post, 21 June 2026
  • The Yankees aren’t sitting around waiting.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The facility now sits around 30 miles from the closest portion of the front line.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • These Knicks don’t sit around and watch Jalen Brunson pound the ball into oblivion.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The bottleneck most analysts missed sits around the silicon, not in it.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • When human beings sit around a table together to eat, something shifts.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
  • The list of cases continues to grow and currently sits around 50.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This chop tends to sit around the collarbone, offering the appeal of a bob without the complete lack of length.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The lowest delivery option of four meals sits around $75, or $15 per meal.
    — Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The 50-day is rising fast and sitting around $47, starting to close the gap beneath price.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • So perhaps ancient humans didn't just sit around campfires, telling tales of the hunt, and looking into the stars for signs from the gods.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The leadership team sat around the table, reviewing the numbers.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

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