Sentence examples for sat peacefully from inspiring English sources

One of them, Terence Stamp, sat peacefully with his elbows on his knees and his index fingers in his ears.

At a butcher's stall, a sheep sat peacefully, waiting for the knife.

Kurt led Moran up to the podium just in front of Bentley, who was still lunging occasionally, while Iliad sat peacefully among a small pack of guide dogs.

In a village in the Mekong delta, a peasant farmer in her late 60s sat peacefully in her home, with its floor of baked mud.

It was put on permanent display in a bullet-proof glass-and-wooden case in the foyer of the Brazilian Football Federation's HQ in Rio de Janeiro, where it sat peacefully for 13 years.

Amid the frenzy of arm-twisting, debate and reporters swarming like bees in a sunflower garden, Representative David Wu, the Oregon Democrat who resigned this week amid a sex scandal, sat peacefully on the balcony off the speaker's lobby, awaiting the last votes of his career and pulling on a stogie.

Even after she could no longer work she would come to the newspaper and sit peacefully in the lobby.

In the shade of a tree near the Williamsburg courthouse, a black man sits peacefully, his cane tilted against the bench.

They hunt for eggs, sit peacefully through church, gorge on candy, pretend to eat their lamb, gorge on more candy and, later, drift off to sleep, usually with new stuffed animals tucked tight against their sides.

The average insect-eating tropical pitcher plant is like a spoiled family dog, one that sits peacefully by the dinner table ever hopeful that a scrap of food -- any scrap of food -- will fall off and into its mouth.

Theresa Lamascola still has dementia, but she went from confinement in a wheelchair — unable to sit still and screaming out in fear — to being able to walk with help, sit peacefully, have some memory and ability to communicate, understand subtleties of conversations and even make jokes.