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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 51
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 63
(1) quietly, quiet, placidly, regularly
Kolokacji: 4
(2) alone, separately, unattended
Kolokacji: 3
(3) together
Kolokacji: 2
(4) cross-legged, nearby, once, long, suddenly, ...
Kolokacji: 36
(5) silent, silently, mute, speechless, mutely, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(6) motionless, unmoving, immobile, frozen, motionlessly, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(7) idle, neatly, unused
Kolokacji: 3
1. sit idle = siedź z założonymi rękami sit idle
  • They should go to school, get a job, participate in politics - not sit idle.
  • The same one I'd seen before, up in that channel, sitting idle on the water.
  • After brief success, the business closed and the building sat idle.
  • The base would only sit idle for a few years.
  • And this thought didn't allow me to sit at my house idle.
  • If she didn't find something to do, she'd sit idle.
  • But while the ship has sat idle since then, its operators have not.
  • The dairy company left in 1989, and the land, bought by the county, was sitting idle.
  • Not bad, they have told him, for someone who has been sitting idle.
  • Why build a new one when theirs is sitting idle?
2. sit neatly = usiądź schludnie sit neatly
3. sit unused = siadać nieużywany sit unused
(8) forward, backward, backwards
Kolokacji: 3
(9) comfortably, well, easily, stone-faced
Kolokacji: 4
(10) straight, squarely, crookedly
Kolokacji: 4
(11) empty, vacant
Kolokacji: 2
(12) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(13) tight, close, backstage, oddly, snug, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(14) high, somewhere, tall, slowly, wearily, ...
Kolokacji: 11
(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
(20) stiffly, rigid, rigidly, stiff, petrified
Kolokacji: 5
(21) actually, practically
Kolokacji: 2
(22) away, side-by-side
Kolokacji: 2
(23) heavily, lightly, slightly
Kolokacji: 3
(24) low, rapt, dejectedly, gloomily
Kolokacji: 4
(25) perfectly, absolutely
Kolokacji: 2
(26) impassively, untouched, unmoved, stolidly, expressionless, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(27) brooding, pensively, thoughtfully
Kolokacji: 3
(28) stunned, numbly, numb, sleepily, apathetically
Kolokacji: 5
(29) uneasily, nervously, tensely, anxiously, restlessly, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(30) naked, nude, unaided
Kolokacji: 3
(31) inside, outdoors, indoors, outside
Kolokacji: 4
(32) passively, listlessly, languidly, listless
Kolokacji: 4
(33) uncomfortably, miserably
Kolokacji: 2
(34) awkwardly, politely, gracefully, woodenly
Kolokacji: 4
(35) happily, sadly
Kolokacji: 2
(36) gingerly, carefully, deliberately
Kolokacji: 3
(37) proudly, meekly, respectfully
Kolokacji: 3
(38) hard, firmly
Kolokacji: 2
(39) glumly, sullenly, morosely, moodily, sullen
Kolokacji: 5
(40) forlornly, disconsolately, forlorn, despondently
Kolokacji: 4
(41) dormant, upright, erect, tight-lipped, flat
Kolokacji: 5
(42) peacefully, tamely
Kolokacji: 2
(43) hardly, barely
Kolokacji: 2
(44) casually, undisturbed, nonchalantly
Kolokacji: 3
(45) obediently, dutifully
Kolokacji: 2
(46) serenely, composedly
Kolokacji: 2
(47) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(48) contentedly, complacently
Kolokacji: 2
(49) helpless, helplessly, expectantly
Kolokacji: 3
(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
(56) wide-eyed, open, unopened, innocently, indefinitely
Kolokacji: 5
(57) precariously, securely, safe
Kolokacji: 3
(58) alert, alertly, warily, breathless
Kolokacji: 4
(59) late, deep, early
Kolokacji: 3
(60) majestically, grandly
Kolokacji: 2
(61) upstairs, downstairs
Kolokacji: 2
(62) beside
Kolokacji: 1
(63) reluctantly, defiantly
Kolokacji: 2

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