Jeremy sated his appetite for sailing by joining the local yacht club.

You just sit back and let me do the cooking.

I refuse to sit back and let this happen.

I can't just sit by and let that happen.

She asked me to sit down beside her.

In 1993 the Israelis sat down with the PLO in Oslo; the treaty was signed in Washington.

I'm sitting for my A-level exams next month.

My great-great-grandmother sat for several Impressionist painters.

When the family sat for a formal photo, it was impossible to get all five children to keep still.

I could not participate, but I was able to sit in as a silent observer.

To protest the changes, the students will sit in at the administration building today.

I was allowed to sit in on the meetings, but with neither voice nor vote.

You may sit in on university courses if you pay an auditor's fee.

My conscience will not let me sit on this crime.

He sat out that game but will play the next one.

As the ship was tossed by waves, the crew could do nothing but sit out the storm.

When her mother entered the room, the girl sat up.

The announcement made me sit up and take notice.

When I was a teenager, I used to babysit to make some money.

Paul and I are going out to dinner tonight, so we've asked the children's auntie to babysit.

I asked my mother to babysit Tom for me so that I could work an extra shift.

Joey sat back in his sunlounger and closed his eyes.

Dinner's almost ready – will you all please come and sit down at the table.

We will sit down at the table later in the week to discuss terms.

You're just going to have to sit it out, no matter how much you dislike it.

I'm tired so I'm going to sit this dance out.

The walkers sat on a fallen tree to rest their legs.

We had to do fifty sit-ups every afternoon during our training.

This situation doesn't sit well with me.

I'm worn out after mowing the lawn; I think I'll have a sit-down before I start making dinner.

Audrey always tries to have a proper sit-down lunch, instead of just grabbing a sandwich and eating it standing by the kitchen counter.

I'm tired of being on the road; let's stop at a sit-down restaurant instead of going to a drive-through.

The students staged a sit-in to protest about the increase in tuition fees.

There were sit-ins at several universities to protest the Vietnam War.

The environmental group staged a sit-in protest outside Parliament.

She improved her stomach muscles by doing a hundred sit-ups every morning.