Sentence examples for present sitting from inspiring English sources

The old, the young, everyone was present, sitting hunched on stools or cross-legged on the floor, transfixed.

In Stockholm, the demographics have completely changed: there's a new present sitting next to the past, and it didn't feel like that when I first went there".

The companies said they had agreed several days ago to bid together for Slavneft, and executives from both companies were present, sitting at desks on the fourth floor of a concrete-and-glass high-rise in central Moscow.

Inside, only 23 of the 39 defendants, representing most of Gaddafi's surviving elite, were present, sitting in two glum rows inside a black iron cage in light blue prison uniforms.

Role-play a conversation of writers from the past or present sitting down together to talk about one another's work, or their own works in progress, with the podcast acting as the "tape recorder" that captures the whole thing.

LATE one evening, Amma granted me an interview in her cramped sleeping quarters, which felt all the smaller because several of her advisers, dressed in saffron-colored garb, were also present, sitting cross-legged on the floor.

Dad once told me that the joy was in every step of receiving gifts -- from the moment they were put into his hands, looking at the wrapped presents sitting on his nightstand, wondering what was inside, to the unwrapping, and then finally using the gifts.

Anyway, this is what it says: You add the infinitive, sit, the present participle, sitting, or the past participle, sat, to an auxiliary verb to get the right tense.

But there's a certain quiet dignity in reading a novelization that simply isn't present when sitting at the multiplex (or downloading the Blu-ray rip, as it were) watching a movie.

The Perth club have since since risen from second bottom of the Second Division and new manager Lomas takes over with the present side sitting fourth in Scotland's top flight.

In the present study sitting was strongly associated with typing and the amount of VDT work.