Sentence examples for but instead sit from inspiring English sources

Facebook does not want to compete directly with the Android and iOS app platforms, but instead sit as a social layer above apps on any mobile OS.

Go on a weekend afternoon or weekday around rush hour, have no intention of grocery shopping, but instead sit and enjoy a featured beverage while you observe the Austinite in its new habitat the yoga ladies, the health-fad-conscious college students, people with respectable 401ks, well-off kids disguised as hippies and hipsters.

Because Eurybia butterflies do not hover in front of a flower like hawk moths but, instead, sit on the inflorescences and search for corolla entrances at a more leisurely pace, they do not expend high energetic costs (Bauder et al., 2011).

Don't slouch or look tired, but instead sit up or stand in a manner that lets your boss know you are interested.

During one memorable lesson, I desperately needed to use the bathroom but instead sat through the entire class, slowly going numb.

Instead, Dr Mocella employs phase-contrast imaging, a technique which works because the ink in the scrolls has not been absorbed into the papyrus, but instead sits on top of it.

The former governor did not speak (Bill Clinton also did not speak when his wife announced her own candidacy) but instead sat quietly in the front row next to his wife, Matilda Cuomo, and Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert and the mother of Andrew Cuomo's wife.

O'Ryan promised to discipline Roemer, the mother said, but instead sat on the accusations.

She could have said her hellos and left but instead sat with me for the entire evening.

But if companies instead sit on their hands, waiting for sure signs of an economic revival, basement-level rates may not do much to spur the economy.

Back in the real world, people instead sit squinting at a single, drastically smaller screen.