Sentence examples for sat long hours from inspiring English sources
What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours and developed heart problems also exercised.
She sat long hours and days by his bedside during his not infrequent, prolonged hospital visits, since he was unable to even ring for a nurse.
During this same period, the Torah scholars sat long hours studying.
The patient sat for long hours in front of a window through which she could always see the infant in the adjoining house.
The second factor included four items related to an awkward body posture ("during my work I sit for long hours in one position", "for more than two hours per day I work with lifted shoulders", "during my work I sit in an awkward posture" and "my work requires performing repetitive tasks") accounting for 17.5% of the total variance.
The second factor included five items related bad habits ("During my work I sit for long hours in one position", "For more than two hours per day I work with lifted shoulders", "During my work I sit in an awkward posture", " In work I perform repetitive tasks" and "I find my job physically exhausting") accounting for 23.9% of the total variance.
Parliament sits for long hours and votes go on well into the evening, meaning 14-hour days are the norm.
If you sit for long hours, you experience no "isometric contraction of the antigravity (postural) muscles," according to an overview of the consequences of inactivity published this month in Exercise and Sports Sciences Reviews.
When he retired, the white-bearded whaler liked to sit for long hours on the porch and when he saw a pretty woman walk by, fire his BB rifle at her — "sort of like bottom pinching at a distance," a local history states.
We will sit here long hours.
The question, "At work, I sit for long hours in one position" describes a situation that is uncommon for many office-work situations because administrative workers generally alternate between tasks that involve a sitting position and tasks that involve changes in posture (e.g., finding a document, administrative meetings, etc).
