Sentence examples for barely sitting from inspiring English sources
Stir crazy and agitated after waiting through four rain delays in the Wimbledon locker room, she treated the changeovers of her quarterfinal match like drive-through service, grabbing a swig of water, barely sitting down.
The people in his scenes are often sitting, barely moving, in postures that resemble despair.
The first day I barely noticed it sitting on the counter, and the second day I almost pitched it in the garbage.
We come from everywhere in the world, but when we take our fork to a triangular piece of barely thickened fruit, sitting in a buttery flaky crust cut out of a round whole pie, we are participating in a happy group ritual.
One Saturday last December she barely noticed the youths sitting opposite her in the carriage.
He has barely skipped a beat, sitting out only one Premier League game (at Villa Park in September) and one Champions League game (at Galatasaray when Arsenal were already qualified).
An Olympic champion cyclist, she pulled off one of the more remarkable sporting feats of recent years when finishing fifth in a steeplechase at the Cheltenham Festival, barely a year after sitting on a horse for the first time.
Even a decade ago, the death of a former US senator, and especially one from a place like Alaska, which, as the cold and exhausted crow flies, is the best part of 5,000 miles from where most of us are sitting, would barely have registered in the British media.
It would not be hard for a citizen of any other EU country, or indeed many Britons, to look at our own electoral system with its multiplicity of "safe seats", where votes for alternatives to the sitting candidate barely need to be counted, and rightly point at a British democratic deficit.
