Word Finder - sitting

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A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

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Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.

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A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

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The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.

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A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").

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The incubation of eggs by a bird.

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A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

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we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

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Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

Sonya was sitting by the table.

There he finds his sister, sitting up in bed, looking frightened.

When she got to the room, Alex was sitting on the love seat reading a newspaper.

I can see her in my rear view mirror, just sitting there, plotting a way they can escape.

Frank led me down a long corridor to a large conference room filled with perhaps thirty intent individuals, standing and sitting, some taking notes, others with few buried faces in computer screens.

Jonathan was sitting on his bed, watching TV in his pajamas.

You might have said something in my defense last night, instead of sitting there like a lump on a log.

From the porch we could see the huddled figure of Howie Abbott sitting under a large red umbrella on the edge of the pier.

It served him right, sitting there like that with barely a word in her defense.

He frowned, rolling away from her and sitting up.

Tears come to my eyes these months later as I pen these words, sitting in the comfort of our Surry, New Hampshire home with Betsy by my side.

On the other side of the thick entry door was a sitting room with lush wine colored carpet.

I wouldn't be sitting here without you.

You've been sitting in Hell watching movies?

From Cumana Bolivar repaired to Cartagena, and thence to Tunja, where the revolutionary congress of New Granada was sitting.

We were sitting or lying on the floor.

If she just turned her head, she could see me, sitting comfortably a scant ten feet away in the darkened living room.

Sitting on a secluded site at the far side of the circle, on the outside, sat a mid-sized Pace Arrow motor home with California Plates!

Everything is still just sitting there from the last time we used it.

She floundered to a sitting position, then her feet, cringing as she struggled upright, the sting in her wounded knees bringing tears to her eyes.

They lucked out on the matter of inn sitting.

On Henderson's return to Edinburgh in July 1641 the Assembly was sitting at St Andrews.

Amongst the more conspicuous secular buildings in the street may be mentioned the Town and County Bank, the Music Hall, with sitting accommodation for 2000 persons, the Trinity Hall of the incorporated trades (originating in various years between 1398 and 1527, and having charitable funds for poor members, widows and orphans), containing some portraits by George Jamesone, a noteworthy set of carved oak chairs, dating from 1574, and the shields of the crafts with quaint inscriptions; the office of the Aberdeen Free Press, one of the most influential papers in the north of Scotland; the Palace Hotel; the office of the Northern Assurance Company, and the National Bank of Scotland.

One pleasant morning in the beautiful springtime, I thought I was sitting on the soft grass under my dear mother's window, looking very earnestly at the rose-bushes which were growing all around me.

One day they were sitting at the table working on coloring books when Alex came home early.

With everything going on, Carmen didn't have time to worry about flying, but when they were all sitting at the airport, she finally had time to stew over it.

She woke when the bed sank with the weight of a person sitting down.

He was sitting in his chair, everything from the top of his head to his thighs covered with the newspaper he was holding out to read.

She said nothing, but when they entered the kitchen to find Len sitting at the table, his expression was wary.

One day when they were sitting on the porch steps together, Brandon proposed a solution.

She staggered on legs of rubber and he lifted her to the counter, sitting her in front of him.

I was left sitting on my hands until the appointed hour of Howie's nap before Betsy assigned me the chore of remaining in the small room while he slept.

Howie shot up to a sitting position.

Finally, sitting by the statue in Duffy Square, I made the phone call.

Perhaps, Daniel Brennan could get out of the kitchen but the five of us would be left sitting on the stove.

I pictured her sitting at a desk, perhaps someone else listening in.

She was sitting with Betsy and me while Quinn was talking gardening with Howie.

Sensing someone behind me, I turned just enough to see my wife sitting in a chair, her eyes closed.

It was strange sitting here, talking to a confessed rapist, with the sound of what was probably more of them eating dinner behind me.

Sitting, she gave up on the jammed seatbelt after a few useless tugs.

The young woman motioned to the sitting area, and Bianca went, relieved.

Wood was stacked beside it, and she turned the book sitting on the coffee table into newspaper to burn.

They weren't safe together, especially since the powerful connection between them was driving her body crazy just sitting so close.

He'd managed to push himself into a sitting position when she returned with soup and water.

Now, she felt out of place, like she was sitting in a display at a furniture store.

Deidre helped him lift the hacking girl into a sitting position.

They were sitting around the dining room table, spellbound as Fred gave witness to past purchases and profits.

Paul sat next to me, just like we're sitting now.

You'd think we were still sitting in the same high school bleachers where we'd met a decade earlier.

Dean thought he'd lost her completely but she remained sitting, clapping with the other spectators—a bit too strenuously—as the puppy parade continued.