Sentence examples for simply sitting around from inspiring English sources

Jean Stogdon, 85, founder of charity Grandparents Plus, said the word "retire" should be scrapped as "it suggests you're simply sitting around waiting for death".

From the pathogen's perspective, simply sitting around in the intestinal tract waiting for a too cursory bout of hand washing is unsatisfactory.

"Relying more on practice nurses is impossible when many surgeries are struggling to recruit, and existing practice nurses aren't simply sitting around waiting for patients to walk through the door.

You'd expect stress to come from the subject, considering you're simply sitting around thinking about how vast the universe is, however the main pressure is the fight for funding.

By making her characters play a text-based game in which the reader absorbs the descriptions of the cyberworld ("You are in a light, bright library, the outer chamber of the sphere where Lark lives and works") at the same time as the character does, she draws readers into the story more deeply than if everyone were simply sitting around pointing and clicking through a more visually oriented game.

Upgrading them ensures that the best food and ammunition are simply sitting around camp.

"It drives me crazy just sitting around," White said.

"You don't have resources just sitting around anymore.

If you are just sitting around, it's difficult.

Together, the new MPs devised a plan to launch a commission into loneliness – due to begin in late 2016 – that would not simply involve politicians sitting around and talking about the issue but instead represent a call to action.

His participation goes beyond just sitting around.