sitting

IPA: sˈɪtɪŋ

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.

Examples of "sitting" in Sentences

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.