How to Use sit under in a Sentence

sit under

verb
  • Outside, men sat under a canvas tent in the street.
    — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • All of this sits under one corporate roof.
    — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 19 June 2026
  • Most stadiums remain open to the sky, and millions of fans will sit under the sun for hours.
    — Carlos Roa, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
  • Disturbingly, the books sat under toy animals on a shelf just above a child’s bed.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026
  • As the chicken sits under a heat lamp, moisture evaporates, and the skin starts to wrinkle.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2026
  • Snow and ice that are left to sit under cars can also corrode and damage the undercarriage.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets or folding chairs and sit under the trees or on the lawn.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 30 June 2026
  • Each of those eight meetings sits under the close watch of all players in the global economic system.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • South Pars is the world’s largest gas field and sits under the waters of the Persian Gulf.
    — Max Burman, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Who knew that one of the greatest innovations was right here, sitting under our noses in midtown this whole time?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
  • Kemmler owns Don's Diner, which sits under the bridge, and has been calling for the bridge to be repaired.
    — Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Cunha is owned by under eight per cent of managers, whereas Amad ownership sits under two per cent.
    — Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The chiplets sit under the processor’s package substrate, to which they’re connected.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Currently, faint white lines outline soccer fields, dirt lots serve as baseball diamonds and a playground sits under a green awning.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The tropical sea, which is the size of three Olympic pools and sits under a clear roof to let in the sunshine, boasts water playgrounds and a kiddie area.
    — Gwen McClure, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The painter spends hours drawing sketches of the corpse, then chops up her body, arranges the pieces in a suitcase and buries it with the help of an old man sitting under a cypress tree.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Visitors can still go to the fourth-floor atrium and sit under the 102-foot-wide dome, but there are no stores to patronize on that level.
    — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Metcalf and his twin brother, Hunter, approached Anthony, who was sitting under their team's tent.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • It’s designed to sit under your clothing to be reasonably unobtrusive save for two elements.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Alina Sadibekova, a junior at the magnet medical school, sat under native oak trees, breathing in the soil-rich air with a pen in hand.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • It’s designed to sit under your clothing to be reasonably unobtrusive, save for two elements.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • With future market conditions unknown, this could prove to be one of the final times in which the price of silver sits under $100 per ounce.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Joey Amor and his two children sat under the shade as members of the VFW placed a memorial brick in her honor.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 25 May 2026
  • The community sits under the flight path of a seemingly endless daily parade of planes — many of them flight school training runs — coming from the airport just to the south.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In the South, summer is marked by more than a few traditions, like catching lightning bugs in the dark, spending long days at the lake, and sitting under a haint blue porch ceiling.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • On the medal, the Virgil inscription surrounds a young man sitting under a laurel tree, listening to the Muse, and writing down her song.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Ushers in standing collar jackets rushed silver trays stacked with cold bottles of Evian to hot attendees sitting under a plexiglass roof.
    — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
  • On my most recent trip, the stalls’ shopkeepers—a new mother and an older woman sitting under an umbrella in the beating sun—were happy to discuss the migrant problem.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Brent crude, the international standard, sat under $80 per barrel Thursday.
    — Michelle Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
  • For now, Scorpiops krachana sits under a rock in a Thai national park — a reminder that the natural world still has surprises to offer, sometimes right at your feet.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026

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