"He can actively do things there, instead of just passively sitting, watching television."

The students couldn't sit passively and listen to her talk.

Wilder didn't want you to sit back passively to watch his play.

He found six of his soldiers sitting passively by a small stream.

She merely allowed herself to be forced down and sat on her knees passively.

To simply sit passively listening to the scanner was no longer possible.

He couldn't understand how a man could have sat there so passively.

The children do not sit passively, as if at a lecture.

In that situation, can we really expect Iran to sit passively by?

No longer will I passively sit by and let things unravel.