"sit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

sit verbo

verbo + sit
Kolokacji: 54
seen sitting • remember sitting • forced to sit • invite to sit • allow to sit • like to sit • want to sit • go to sit • use to sit • continue to sit • ...
sit + preposición
Kolokacji: 91
sit on • sit down • sit at • sit up • sit beside • sit around • sit behind • sit atop • sit near • sit across • sit outside • sit back • sit beneath • ...
sit + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 242
sit quietly • sit alone • sit together • sit cross-legged • sit silent • sit motionless • sit silently • sit idle • sit forward • sit comfortably • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 63
(3) together
Kolokacji: 2
(7) idle, neatly, unused
Kolokacji: 3
(8) forward, backward, backwards
Kolokacji: 3
(10) straight, squarely, crookedly
Kolokacji: 4
(11) empty, vacant
Kolokacji: 2
(12) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(15) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(16) calmly, sedately
Kolokacji: 2
(17) right, primly, properly
Kolokacji: 3
(18) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(19) idly, lazily, uselessly
Kolokacji: 3
(21) actually, practically
Kolokacji: 2
(22) away, side-by-side
Kolokacji: 2
(23) heavily, lightly, slightly
Kolokacji: 3
(25) perfectly, absolutely
Kolokacji: 2
(30) naked, nude, unaided
Kolokacji: 3
(33) uncomfortably, miserably
Kolokacji: 2
(35) happily, sadly
Kolokacji: 2
(37) proudly, meekly, respectfully
Kolokacji: 3
(38) hard, firmly
Kolokacji: 2
(42) peacefully, tamely
Kolokacji: 2
(43) hardly, barely
Kolokacji: 2
(45) obediently, dutifully
Kolokacji: 2
(46) serenely, composedly
Kolokacji: 2
(47) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(48) contentedly, complacently
Kolokacji: 2
(50) literally, generally, exactly
Kolokacji: 3
(51) ready, quickly, promptly
Kolokacji: 4
(52) spellbound, entranced
Kolokacji: 2
(53) attentively, intently
Kolokacji: 2
(54) solemnly, somberly, soberly
Kolokacji: 3
(55) prominently, inconspicuously
Kolokacji: 2
(57) precariously, securely, safe
Kolokacji: 3
(59) late, deep, early
Kolokacji: 3
(60) majestically, grandly
Kolokacji: 2
1. sit majestically = usiądź majestatycznie sit majestically
2. sit grandly = usiądź okazale sit grandly
  • In Paris, when Ms. Parry returned home, she sat grandly in a wooden chair.
  • Where the American Museum of Natural History pulls in three million visitors a year, the Historical Society, sitting grandly right beside it on Central Park West, gets fewer than 150,000.
  • The building sits grandly on the river and consists of elaborate kitchens, private quarters, cloisters and extensive gardens.
  • Here, the Cattedrale di San Ciriaco sits grandly atop the site of an ancient Pagan temple, jimmied together with Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic features.
  • M Map Sitting grandly at the top of the old town, Tarragona's cathedral is undergoing a major facelift and much of it is largely closed.
  • Doc was sitting grandly at the bar with a steaming tumber of tea--a chaser, I guess, since he was Just putting down a shot glass.
  • Some two miles long and a quarter-mile across, Wassataquoik Lake sits grandly in a green-walled glacial valley: a sweep of blue water, green woods and gray rock beneath large dark clouds and deep blue sky.
  • As it was, she sat back grandly, bowing now to the left, now to the right and feeling more important than she had ever felt in her whole cotton career.
  • Trying not to shake with nerves, Sophie sat grandly in the embroidered chair opposite Mrs. Pentstemmon's, supporting herself on her stick in what she hoped was the same elegant way.
  • The boss sat grandly behind his metal desk, eyed the jittery captive with a mixture of pomposity and kindliness.
(61) upstairs, downstairs
Kolokacji: 2
(62) beside
Kolokacji: 1
(63) reluctantly, defiantly
Kolokacji: 2

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