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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