The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
Had I sat down to wish for any possible good to my family, I should have fixed on Colonel Brandon's marrying one of you as the object most desirable.
The house flared with gas; and the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
Yes--I think I do;" and he sat down, and stretched out his long legs toward the fire.
He slapped himself on the thigh, and wondered that he had never thought of that before; and then, lighting a cigar with a splinter from the fire, he sat down again to work the scheme out in his own mind.
Yes, I think I will sit down with you;" and I sat down by her side.
The tea-things were brought forward, and we sat down.
We sat down, and, as we breakfasted, I gave Isopel Berners another lesson in the Armenian language.
We sat down, and Belle made tea and did the honours of the meal.
Very strange," thought I; then dismissing the gypsy girl I sat down by the fire.
At length, however, he sat down at the end of the table, opposite his brother.
Dyke, still a little dazed, sat down by one of the tables, preoccupied, saying but little, and Caraher as a matter of course set the whiskey bottle at his elbow.
He sat down in the smoking-room, lighting a cigarette, and Annixter and the drummers pressed around him to know the story of the whole affair.
There he sat down, and leaning forward, rested his elbows on his knees, and looked out vaguely into the night, his thoughts swiftly readjusting themselves.
He sat down close to the low shelf and listened to the motherly purring, now and then speaking and putting out his hand to touch the warm fur.
He sat down on the floor of the cellar and held his head in his hands, pressing his eyes so hard that curious lights floated before them.
The Secret Party, in its subterranean cavern, surrounded by its piled arms, sat down to read the morning paper.
Later on he sat down upon a step and hid his face in his hands and for half an hour or so he did not move.
So a barred door clanged upon Jurgis and he sat down upon a bench and buried his face in his hands.
Afterward he sat down in the water near the bank, and proceeded to scrub himself--soberly and methodically, scouring every inch of him with sand.
He sat down amid a good deal of applause, for his audience had not been bored, though I could see that some of them thought his praise of Germany a bit steep.
I was poring over Baddely when Gresson sat down beside me.
From him my thoughts flew to old Peter Pienaar, and I sat down on a roadside wall and read his last letter.
He sat down at his desk, and busied himself with a mass of buff dockets.
I sat downin a ditch, as merry as a sand-boy, and lit a pipe.
Mary put down her candle on the table near the bed and sat down on the cushioned stool.
He sat on the seats in the alcoves, and once or twice he sat down on the grass and several times he paused in the path and leaned on Dickon, but he would not give up until he had gone all round the garden.
He stood for a minute or two looking around the room with the same expression of self-disgust, as if he hated himself and everything about him; then he sat down again at the table, drew a few more strokes, and threw his pencil aside.
Her head felt light and she sat down for a moment by the roadside.
It's an awful bad night," he said to the woman, as he sat down to take off his arctic overshoes.
But as that did not seem to give him any more interest in the matter, he sat down again.
Everything was ship-shape now, and we sat down on either side of the crib to stand our watch.
She sang religious songs of Mozart, which had been early favourites of Lady Steyne, and with such sweetness and tenderness that the lady, lingering round the piano, sat down by its side and listened until the tears rolled down her eyes.
Once he got into his cabin he dared not come out again; when he sat down he dared not get up; he dared not raise his eyes to anybody's face; he felt reluctant to look upon the sea or up to the sky.
Nevertheless, when he sat down on the lower step of the bridge-ladder his knees knocked together a little.
Then the air of guilt left him, and he sat down to wait.
Afterwards he sat down to his piano, and in a pause he became aware of slow footsteps passing on the path along the front.
He sat down heavily in the deck-chair to keep the pretense of his watch.
He made a deprecatory gesture, sat down, and took up a paper.
But when I opened to him my mind as to Mr. Burns he sat down by my side, and, laying his hand on my knee amicably, begged me to think what it was I was exposing myself to.
Having absolutely nothing to do (for I had not unpacked my things), I sat downon the bed and abandoned myself to the influences of the hour.
And did you take notice of the way she told us about the book when we sat down to have our ice cream?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sat down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
