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sit around

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sit, sit aroundverb

    be around, often idly or without specific purpose

    "The object sat in the corner"; "We sat around chatting for another hour"

Wiktionary

  1. sit aroundverb

    To sit down and not do anything important.

ChatGPT

  1. sit around

    To sit around means to spend time idly or without doing anything significant or productive. It often implies laziness or inactivity, and can suggest just sitting in a certain place with no specific intentions or goals.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sit around in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sit around in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sit around in a Sentence

  1. Sonja Lyubomirsky:

    Happy people don't sit around, they strive for something personally meaningful, whether it's learning a new language, retraining in their careers or raising good kids. Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

  2. Chairman Wuelfing:

    The French don't sit around - they are always first when it comes to connecting commercial and political interests, german carmakers would be well advised to hit the road.

  3. Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove:

    (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.

  4. Niwat Roykaew:

    We cannot just sit around and wait for China to say when they are releasing the water from their dams; Mekong countries need to have a say on this too.

  5. Jeb Bush:

    If this election is about how we're going to fight to get nothing done, then ... I don't want any part of it. I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives. That is not my motivation, i've got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that.

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