sit over
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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“Okay. You can sit over in the back. A lot of the residents are hard of hearing, so you can repeat what I say. Then I don’t have to use the microphone, which has feedback and hurts their ears, especially if they have hearing aids.”
From Literature
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“Hey, wait, we’re supposed to sit over there,” Quince says, pointing at the bench.
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“Sit over here. We’re clearing now.”
From Salon
It allowed long-lasting areas of high pressure to sit over the UK keeping rain clouds away and helping heat to build.
From BBC
We sit over here in our homes in the United States ordering pizza and watching Netflix and putting the kids to bed and getting ready to go to work in the morning, and overseas, soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines are in harm's way just by the jobs that they do.
From Salon
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