Sentence examples for sat for weeks from inspiring English sources

THE zinnias sat for weeks as if shell-shocked.

And the hall where the students sat for weeks looked immaculate except for a couple of garbage bags.

We sat for weeks in a church in north Sweden, looking at the light during the three hours between 11 and two o'clock.

Once the pan arrived in the apartment, there was no place to put the thing, and so it sat for weeks on the kitchen floor.

Four feet of water sat for weeks in their house, which was full of antiques and diaries from ancestors involved in the Underground Railroad.

WASHINGTON — Inside a dark jail cell on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, a brawny 36-year-old American from the mountains of southwest Virginia has sat for weeks as Pakistan began proceedings against him on murder charges and his own government made frantic attempts to secure his release.

Sample the reading ephemera that sit for weeks in your bathroom.

But making them right means letting them sit for weeks, and sometimes you want that sweet-and-sour-and-salty flavor without the wait.

During heavy storms, the corps closes the dam gates, forming a long, snaking lake behind it that pushes back for miles and can sit for weeks before the water is filtered back downriver.

Tesla notes in a released statement today that the Roadster can sit for weeks or months without a problem — if the car is originally fully charged.

In other parts of Italy, they shake the olives from the trees, then let them sit for weeks, sometimes, before pressing.