sat
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of sit.
sat
1 American
[sat]
/ sæt /
verb
sat
2
American
[suht]
/ sʌt /
SAT
3
American
Trademark.
sat.
4
American
abbreviation
-
saturate.
-
saturated.
Sat.
5
American
abbreviation
-
Saturday.
-
Saturn.
Sat.
1
British
abbreviation
-
Saturday
-
Saturn
sat
2
British
/ sʌt /
adjective
-
very tired; exhausted
-
drunk
SAT
3
British
abbreviation
sat
4
British
/ sæt /
verb
Etymology
Origin of sat2
< Sanskrit: literally, being
Origin of SAT3
Originally an abbreviation of Scholastic Aptitude Test and later, Scholastic Assessment Test
Example Sentences
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During the Bridge fire, she sat in gridlocked traffic on Highway 2 — one of two primary routes out of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
For the past week, Meta’s artificial-intelligence assistant Muse has sat at the top of Apple’s U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Peter Gammons sat in the visiting dugout when a 17-year-old Cal Ripken Jr. started “driving bombs” over the wall during batting practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
They sat on it together afterwards, smiling for cameras.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
We sat there around a fire that began to feel good.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
That report recommended keeping the SAT and ACT in place until UC could develop its own admissions test, an idea UC later concluded was too difficult and costly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The relationship between starting a star business and SAT scores is, in fact, quite weak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The College Board, for instance, fully integrated the free digital-graphing tool Desmos directly into its digital SAT in 2024, and followed up by doing so with calculator-based AP exams this spring.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Wall Street analysts who cover Bank of America need a grasp of complex financial metrics, familiarity with regulatory ratios and, apparently, a high SAT vocabulary score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
We talked about college at the dinner table, my parents paid for me to take SAT prep classes, they took me to visit colleges and they even helped me fill out my applications.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
“I knew she had been on a rough road but there she sat. That took guts. She still has that spark,” says Spencer, now vice-president of institutional advancement at the university.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020
Various dates and times; starts sat., ends Nov. 15.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
“We sat. We discussed the battle. He remembered everything up to the minute,” Naimo said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 16, 2017
On the nine year old’s Facebook page, she has posted a message: “Zombie hunting at the ranch in lochart in sat. wish us luck.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2014
Sat., lib. i. sat. iii. lines 107, 108.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Though the company’s Italian website remained live, outlets in Turin, Parma, Rome and elsewhere offered the same discouraging message: “Sun. to Sat. CLOSED.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Sat., noon, 3, 5 and 8 p.m.; next Sun., noon, 4 and 7 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW; opens Sat., then Tuesdays through Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., free.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2017
We followed it to a trailer posted with a sign ‘Opening Sat. First Come First Served.’
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
Käthe’s gone back to Alsace and I’m waiting for the moon again—everything in place and we’ve had confirmation of a bomber flypast planned for Sat. night—whether or not Op.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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