sit on

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit on
Verb
  • Hartig snatched up the reins, putting down the rifle.
    Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
  • Chilling at the beach The sand around the Lake Worth Beach Pier (more formally, the William O. Lockhart Municipal Pier) has always been a popular place to fish, surf or put down a blanket to chill by the water, with plenty of local dining and shopping options.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • Then this week, Steele slapped down a bid to stay his preliminary injunction.
    Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
  • Trump slapped down a small group of blue state Republican lawmakers, mostly from the New York suburbs, who are pushing for a big increase in the deduction for state and local taxes, or SALT.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Incumbents, likewise, will feel more empowered to use violence to quash independence movements.
    Ryan D. Griffiths, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2025
  • However, Tuesday morning seemingly saw Klopp’s representative seek to quash the rumours.
    Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • But what's new is both the effort to silence and harm the career prospects of student dissidents as well as the coordinated effort to force universities to shutter entire programs of study for fear that criticism of Israel's policies—and America's complicity with them—might escape containment.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • The fearless testimony of the three survivors during this trial proves that no matter how powerful the abuser, no matter how indifferent the systems that ignore the abuse, survivors will not be silenced.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • Abscisic acid kick-starts a cascade of biochemical reactions that repress cell division and growth, while gibberellin has the opposite effect.
    Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • They can be removed, added and relocated to activate certain genes and repress others.
    Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Investment spending picked up around 2016 but hit a wall with Covid, and has been subdued since.
    William Dunkelberg, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • One of the suspects had to be subdued with a stun gun.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • Eight engines, three water tenders, two dozers and one hand crew are working to suppress the fire.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 26 May 2025
  • And in 1955, the McGee Fire burned through much of Converse Basin, consuming second-growth sequoias and demonstrating the dangers of suppressing all fires.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
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“Sit on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sit%20on. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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