Sentence examples for sit in for from inspiring English sources

"sit in for" is correct and is often used in written English.
You can use it when someone else is taking the place of another person for a particular task or responsibility. For example: "My colleague had to stay home sick, so I agreed to sit in for him at the meeting today."

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sit in for

verb

To substitute; to take somebody's place.

  • Can you sit in for him while he's gone?

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For example, she said, Hyatt meeting planners schedule frequent breaks, stock buffets with high-energy foods and use chairs that are comfortable enough to sit in for seven hours.

In danger of humiliation, he sent a lackey to sit in for him.

He even decided which seat each of the four men should sit in for the broadcast.

"There are only maybe six seats I will sit in for this show," Veneziano said.

Hospice volunteers, bless them, were able to sit in for several hours a day, substantially reducing the cost.

Our cars are supposed to deliver us from our parents, our teachers, our rulers, not sit in for them.

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He had been covering the sit-in for al-Jazeera's Arabic channel.

The doctor has been living inside the cordon around the sit-in for the past three days.

After a long search, the filmmakers found a family willing to provide a headshot of their late beloved, Antoine, as a sit-in for their character.

Their constituents wanted to see action on gun violence, and had welcomed the Democrats' sit-in for gun control with gratitude and enthusiasm.

House Democrats' sit-in for a vote on gun control last month was dismissed by their Republican counterparts as a "publicity stunt" and "not becoming US Congress".

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