0 to (cause someone to) be in a position in which the lower part of the body is resting on a seat or other type of support, with the upper part of the body vertical: --
2 to hold an official meeting of a committee, court, etc.: --
4 to take an exam: --
5 to babysit: --
If he were to have his own way he would be perfectly happy to sit here seven days a week and not move.
Even if courts continued to sit, they did so with diminishing effectiveness.
Abandoned, burned-out cars sat beside walls covered with graffiti.
An icy wind blows through your cotton shirt while you sit outside the hospital door, waiting for your wife to bring up the car.
She did not sit around waiting for anyone.
It is a beautifully proportioned composition and, with its angled entrance and rounded south-west corner, it sits on the site as if it grew there.
Breathing heavily, she sat back in the chair and closed her eyes.
The subject sat in a chair in front of the robot and monitor, and grasped a handle with his/her right hand.