Sentence examples for sat like from inspiring English sources

"An Anna Wintour Niçoise…" My crab salad looked just as gorgeous: a large tomato, boiled and peeled, sat like a dome over white crabmeat softened by miso dressing, served with mandolined wafers of radish and beetroot.

He sat like them, breathing the shade.

They sat like that until the waiter approached.

He didn't know how long they sat like this.

The leaderless Labour front bench sat like invalids from the Somme.

The boy sat like a mannequin in her lap, as if he were made of wood.

Hilary Benn sat like a shell-shocked cockerel, his chicken-face showing no awareness of where he was.

She sat like that for a little, quiet while as I looked on, helplessly attentive to this gesture of despair.

It sat like a challenge on the shelves of hipsters everywhere.

Democratic subcommittee chairmen sat like potted plants because all power was wielded by Chairman Obey.

Across the field, his house sat like a big sweet animal.