Sentence examples for instrument sits from inspiring English sources

On the floor, the shell of one old instrument sits empty, picked over like a carcass.

The instrument sits at the focus of a ∼2-m diameter three-mirror anastigmat telescope with a 1.4 deg2 field of view.

One persistent myth has it that Mr. Van Vliet, who had no formal ability at any instrument, sat at the piano, turned on tapes and spontaneously composed most of the record in a single marathon eight-and-a-half-hour session.

And in the middle of this Perspex studio, dressed entirely in black, and surrounded by a sea of instruments, sits PJ Harvey.

Trillions of dollars in such instruments sit on its and other big banks' balance sheets.

A few locals with musical instruments sat on an adjoining table.

Three percussionists with identical instruments sat side by side, using percussion timbres, vocalizations and body gestures to produce a ritualistically choreographed work that packed as strong a punch visually as aurally.

That's why those instruments sat in Goddard's pressure cooker for what is known as cryo-vacuum test 3 (CV3).

A shroud of multi-layer insulation keeps the temperature within the telescope stable, and surrounds a light aluminum shell in which the telescope and instruments sit.

To prevent heat from the Earth's atmosphere or anything else from contaminating the delicate measurements, the entire instrument array sits in what Dr. Kogut called "a flying cold tub".

In his 1652 painting A View of Delft, now on display in the National Gallery, a musical instrument seller sits musing at his stall near a canal bridge that swoops in a grey emptiness towards the city centre.