In practice, having cash sitting around is tempting.
To his astonishment he found his Master and the other disciples sitting there, absorbed in meditation.
The women say that custom prevents them from idly sitting outside.
Later, after I had cleaned the mess and ate supper, I was sitting at the bar drinking milk and balancing my checkbook when I saw someone sitting in the corner at one of the tables.
When I remember my dream last night, the angel was sitting on the curved light, smiling softly on the face and gently reaching out to me.
The grandfather was sitting under the fir trees, where he had also put up a seat, waiting as usual for his goats which returned down the mountain on this side.
He was sitting in a plastic chair, dozens of women in ripped dresses singing and dancing around him, little children with runny noses and distended bellies squeezing his hand.
a bed-cum-sitting room
They stuck in my sitting room until midnight.
Cass sunstein and David Schkade, two academics, found that Republican-appointed judges vote more conservatively when sitting on a panel with other Republicans than when sitting with Democrats.
Eight people died in the collision, including three little girls who were sitting in the minivan's backseat.
Over lunch I find myself sitting under Genrikh Yagoda - a thin, cadaverous-looking man with a black moustache.
When with the day's burden I went home, my love was sitting in the garden idly tearing the leaves of a flower.
He drove to Atlanta from his hometown in Kansas especially to watch the flying men's 100 meters race. When Canadian athlete Bailey became the new king of the 100 meters in a new world record of 9"84, Greene, who was sitting in the stands cried.
He is a sitting Member of Parliament.
Fresh copies of your resume are sitting in your backpack.
You're not sitting there all day in your pajamas wondering what to do next, you're ready for action!
"Not qualified to do that, you know. Just sitting idle at home. I haven't touched the pen for ages, as a matter of fact.
Few things make you feel more helpless than sitting blank-faced at a screen, looking at a flashing cursor and a message saying "PASSWORD INCORRECT" in a disapproving tone.
She was sitting immediately to my left.
Or does it entail sitting down with a pattern cutter and designing?
The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes."
He closed his eyes and opened them again but what he saw did not change. There, sitting by the window with a thick moustache twitching over his upper lip as he talked to someone opposite him, was no other than the director of the Bureau of Education.
A compact sitting-room of the same genre was outside.
They breakfasted at noon in the sunny sitting room, where the air was heavy with the scent of roses.
And I am literally sitting, in a burnt-orange alcove designed to frame a giant plant pot, because this is the one nook of the pool where I can be up to my chin in the water and also not be in the sun.
Had the man been sitting there glaring at him for the entire night without him knowing?
When he had at last forced his way through, he saw a wonderfully beautiful maiden sitting under the tree; and she sat there and was entirely covered with her golden hair down to her very feet.
An unidentified woman screams as she realizes that a man dressed up like a zombie is sitting next to her.
I'll be sitting in the third carriage from the engine.
He didn't stir while sitting there.
The Border Patrol agents sitting at them chat idly to themselves.
If you were going to run a triathlon, you would spend more time improving your endurance and pacing yourself then sitting on the bench writing out the timing for your swimming, running and biking.
And about halfway through her song, she reached for a matching blue pageboy wig, which was sitting atop her piano, and positioned it on her bare head.
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