Sentence examples for able to sit still from inspiring English sources

In general, Thinkersmith recommends that students spend no more time sitting in front of a computer than you would expect them to be able to sit still for a book.

"He wasn't really able to sit still," said Mrs. Goldberg.

I seldom have been able to sit still and force myself to feel her seclusion.

Rice, the Oakland Raiders receiver, has never been able to sit still.

To succeed today, you have to be able to sit still and focus attention in school at an early age.

Posey in particular seemed barely able to sit still, or resist luring Hoechlin into mock arguments in the "Shut up/No, you shut up" vein.

David Denby, in his critique of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," worries that today's children may not "be able, in ten years, to sit still for a movie without special effects and magic" (The Current Cinema, July 25th).

And I also wondered, with all due homage to the series, if he'll be able, in ten years, to sit still for a movie without special effects and magic, a movie in which a man and a woman face each other across a table and merely talk.

[But I] wondered, with all due homage to the series, if he'll be able, in ten years, to sit still for a movie without special effects and magic, a movie in which a man and a woman face each other across a table and merely talk".

The fact that I was able to get her to sit still for the 1/60th of a second it took to shoot her is a testament to the speed and auto-focus capabilities of this camera.

It will probably be difficult to sit still at first, but after practicing meditation for a few days, you should feel calmer and better able to cope.