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Example sentences for "sits down"

  • Ronayne, drawing his breath somewhat savagely, sits down on the sill of the window and gazes blankly into the barrack-yard below.

  • Sits down, breaks into a paroxysm of laughter, wild and continued.

  • Sits down, turning the pages with trembling hands; reads.

  • Halla (sits down on the grass, leaning on her arm).

  • Sits down on the chest and runs her hand over the paint.

  • He sits down furiously at the end of the table next the study].

  • He sits down at the near end of the table].

  • He sits down distractedly in the railed chair].

  • He sits down at the end of the table nearest the hearth].

  • Sits down) I wish I could get a drink of water or something.

  • He sits down) The sun has set, yet it's still hot.

  • He sits down to write on a paper he has taken from his portfolio.

  • Great honor--for when it concerns the arrival of persons who--[He sits down.

  • He sits down, takes a partly written letter from his portfolio and reads it.

  • He walks round to his chair, sits down in it and begins to turn the pages, murmuring names beginning with "C" to himself as he gets near the place.

  • He sits down in a chair on the opposite side of the table from his uncle, and lights his pipe.

  • He sits down in a chair and lights his cigarette.

  • Then he sits down again, twirling his beaver, while Cynthia looks at him in quiet amusement.

  • He sits down wearily at the basswood table, and scarcely hears the familiar sounds without, which indicate that the convention of conventions has begun.

  • After dinner and any social recreation that may be in hand he sits down at his desk again by ten or eleven o'clock, and writes until two in the morning.

  • Generally he sits down to write; but cannot bear to have a pen in hand when thinking about the subject of his work.

  • He cannot write when anybody is in the room, and, therefore, always locks the doors before he sits down to his work.

  • A touch of the poker upon the coals makes them leap into a blaze, and he sits down in an arm-chair to finish his cigar, and cast an eye over the notes and telegrams that have come for him during his absence.

  • He sits down again in his arm-chair, replenishes the fire, and lights another cigar.

  • He closes the door and returns to the settle, where he sits down by the pile of peat and drops his head in his hand.

  • WILL [he sits down by the hearth at her feet, looking into the firelight].

  • Always condescending about my authorship, he stifles a sigh, the sigh of a lazy reader, sits down in an armchair and begins upon it.

  • Mari d'elle gropes his way to the edge of the bed and, puffing, sits down at his wife's feet.

  • She takes up a book, sits down facing me and begins moving her lips .

  • Sasha leaps up, rummages in a disorderly way among two or three heaps of papers, drops the matches, and without finding the corkscrew, sits down in silence.

  • She joins him at once, and, shutting the door behind her, sits down with a fagged air.

  • He turns back to the table with a smile at the idea, and, taking out a writing-case, sits down to scribble a line.

  • Instead, he sits down at some distance off, and says quietly: "I see, you will force them to call in the police.

  • Sits down, rises, sits down again] Now one might run a needle into his arm.

  • When he sits down to table, the spoon springs into his hand of its own accord!

  • With a sigh of weary resignation she comes to the draughtsman's chair; sits down; and begins to read Shakespeare.

  • He replaces the drawing-board; sits down at the table; and begins to mix a wash of color].

  • He sits down in the wicker chair; and resigns himself to allow her to lead the conversation].

  • Hesione, utterly shamed, sits down on the sofa and covers her face with her hands.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and said; articulate language; curse upon; dense thicket; directly elected; during life; during the last year; esprit humain; felt assured; general massacre; great tribulation; happy thought; individual consciousness; know your; long thoughts; loved them; morrow will; similar view; sits down; ten years; white precipitate; your time