"sit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then he sat up very straight and stuck his hand out soberly.
- She went downstairs beside him without speaking and sat soberly throughout lunch, which they ate in a small bright room at the back of the house.
- Across the parking lot, in a cavernous former cotton warehouse that serves as Dean headquarters, the workers sat soberly staring into computer monitors.
- On the day that Grandmother Jadwiga was hanged, Jan returned to the cottage with the cement floor, the one that Jadwiga had gained for the family, and sat soberly in the chair once occupied by the earlier Janko, the one who had worked in Vienna and been killed at the battle of Zamosc.
- And, no, the account of those paintings is not "pretty good" because the character's response to it is "enhanced" by cocaine, for the simple reason that this account was not written by the coke-snorting character but by the author sitting soberly at his desk.
- They were sitting soberly around the tables in the large front room, but they rose when he entered.
- They are more like people who attend the Academy Awards, film-industry insiders, who last year sat soberly through David Letterman's routines.
- Weary sat soberly down on the oats box and absently watched Andy's expert fingers while they knotted the heavy cotton cord through the cinch-ring.
- Sarah said nothing but sat soberly contemplating the toe of her shoe.
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