sit under

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verb

(intr, preposition) cards to be seated on the right of (the player)

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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Words nearby sit under

situation comedy, situation ethics, situationism, situation room, situla, sit under, sit-up, sit-upon, situs, situs inversus, situs picketing

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How to use sit under in a sentence

In London it is located in the Duveen Gallery where half the extant marbles sit under white light as if in a morgue.
Britain Has Lost Its Marbles: Elgin Loan Will Appease Putin|Geoffrey Robertson|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was thus they named a cross-road where the martyr king used to sit under an oak-tree and administer justice.
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere
But I'll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, and curl up to sleep in a lock of straw!
Far from the Madding Crowd|Thomas Hardy
We sit under the roof of death, yet we are as ready to laugh as ever.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845|Various

The little wood opposite—how delightful to sit under its shade!
The Sorrows of Young Werther|J.W. von Goethe
I have a fancy that I could sit under a tree and read a sermon, and think it the sweetest recreation.
The Prime Minister|Anthony Trollope