sitting

IPA: sˈɪtɪŋ

noun

  • A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
  • A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
  • A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
  • The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
  • A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
  • The incubation of eggs by a bird.
  • A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
  • Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

adjective

  • Executed from a sitting position.
  • Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
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Examples of "sitting" in Sentences

  • I am sitting on a chair.
  • How long is the sitting anyways
  • The sitting was for three months.
  • What is the significance of the sitting
  • An anchorite is sitting aside of a brook.
  • The balance of the committee is sitting gratis.
  • Lonesome George was there sitting in a sanctuary.
  • We all have to do what we call sitting in traffic.
  • COOPER: Walter, you used the term sitting ducks in describing U.S. troops.
  • For example, in ˜Socrates is sitting,™ ˜sitting™ indicates Socrates 'position.
  • There's only one thing worse than sitting through THE SWARM..sitting through the extended cut of THE SWARM!
  • Now we have Gadhafi however you spell his name sitting in a freezer like Frankie Carbone at the end of Goodfellas.
  • Of course, a geisha never really "sits" while wearing kimono; what we call sitting is probably what other people would call kneeling.
  • He says he's fighting his sex sting guilty plea, and he says he's not going to spend the rest of his term sitting around, tapping his feet.
  • If she's attending a more sedentary event, she'll pull out what she calls her "sitting shoes," which are more embellished and have a higher heel.
  • His own house was very quiet; he could not hear his wife's voice, nor the sound of Nina's footsteps in the big room, opening on the verandah, which he called his sitting-room, whenever, in the company of white men, he wished to assert his claims to the commonplace decencies of civilisation.

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