During games, Carissa, who is 4-foot-3, sits for hours with her legs folded under her so she can see over the board.
They are notoriously inefficient: because the ancient machinery in refineries frequently breaks down, cut cane sits for hours in the sun, its sugar content seeping away.
As we talk, he sits for hours in a big woolly hat, peering through his thick specs at a repetitive computer game that keeps him calm and happy.
Maybe he had some trick, like that thing you see in old films, where the spy or whoever sits for hours underwater, breathing through a hollowed stick or a reed.
In Baltimore, Mr. SeBour now works as an investigator for Commercial Index Bureau; he sits for hours in a car, looking for proof of cheating spouses, or phony disability claims.
Studies of daily movement patterns, though, show that your typical modern exerciser, even someone who runs, subsequently sits for hours afterward, often moving less over all than on days when he or she does not work out.
He sits for hours every day on eBay, scouring the site for random snapshots, discarded family albums, defunct newspaper archives and cinema stills – then creates installations from his vast collection of found photography.
"We need to speak up for the little guy," Mr. Edwards said, "the guy who gets mercury poisoning and then sits for hours in a hospital emergency room because he can't afford health insurance".
In my mind, they are still there now * Frozen in time, never to grow old, everyone still sits for hours around that long table in the dining room drinking far too much Blanc de Blanc as Keith strums the chords of "The Jerk," by the Larks, over and over again.
So on "bad relationship days," she takes her dog and computer and sits for hours at various Chelsea coffee shops, where over the past year she's noticed a marked shift from students hanging out to "everyone on their computer fighting for a chance".
Carriers have four ways of defining when a jet leaves "on time"; one way logs a flight as punctual even if it sits for hours on the tarmac (see On Time, p. 115).
