How do you use the word "sit" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "sit": I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp. You have only to sit here.

Sit Meaning

/sɪt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.

verbTo move oneself into such a position.

Sentence Examples

I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp.

You have only to sit here.

There's only one seat so you'll have to sit on my lap.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

None

Antonyms:

stand lie arise

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please ____ down in the chair and wait patiently for your turn.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please find a chair and ____ down so we can begin the presentation.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti Proto-Germanic *sitjaną Proto-West Germanic *sittjan Old English sittan Middle English sitten English sit From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja, Danish sidde, Faroese sita, Icelandic sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des." — 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5, lines 120–121:

"This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire." — 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, page 64:

"So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice." — 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 274:

"[…] and I am old enough to remember how often I have seen the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, about eight in the morning (when I was at Bath in 91 or 92), returning from the parade, where she had sate up the live-long night with her sister, Lady Duncannon; it can therefore be no disgrace to appear as if you felt for your daughter." — 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:

"[…] And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, / Sate the king when healths went round." — 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] LXII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, page 94:

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