Sentence examples for escape sitting from inspiring English sources

To escape sitting through a three-hour luncheon or dinner — an eternity for a child, said Mr. Ortlieb — he took refuge in the kitchen, helping his sister prepare and serve food and finding he liked this behind-the-scenes atmosphere.

Thor asks Loki if his efforts were successful, and that Loki should tell him while he is still in the air as "tales often escape a sitting man, and the man lying down often barks out lies".

Home at last and now it was the time she had been looking forward to all week: fire-escape-sitting-time.

She has just returned from the library: Home at last and now it was the time she had been looking forward to all week: fire-escape-sitting-time.

This very day, people are suffering fruitless pain at the end of long illness, and dreaming of escape; others are sitting beside them, helpless to give them a peaceful exit.

Nowadays the abstractions of aesthetic and intellectual criteria matter much less to me than people's efforts to console themselves, to free themselves, to escape from themselves, by sitting down and making something.

How he dreaded the idea of becoming immobilized and unable to escape the prison of sitting.

He didn't like the fact that police had allowed fans to escape the crush by sitting on the perimeter of the pitch because it looked untidy.

"All I can say is that it's a little unlikely that an escaped convict would be sitting at a mall eating lunch," she said.

As great an actor as Grieg is, there's no escaping the fact that sitting through an episode of Episodes is like sitting through an eternity of having bamboo shards jammed into your urethra.

If Zimmerman was being prevented from escaping by Martin's sitting on him, then the expansion of self-defense under Stand Your Ground is irrelevant.