Sentence examples for sits ready from inspiring English sources

Their dark, stifling apartment sits ready for the wake of a baby girl, dead of malnutrition.

In the kitchen, a saucepan of oil sits ready to fry potatoes that were peeled and cut more than 20 years ago.

Out back, up through a rock cut that is part of a new $4.8 million road, a building that resembles a vastly oversized summer cottage now sits ready to serve as a satellite campus for the University of Waterloo.

Inside the building, gleaming lecture-halls beckon; a huge team of interpreters sits ready to translate lessons into 26 languages; video cameras, computers, audience-response keyboards and other new technologies seem to be everywhere.

This new Halloween version, loosely based on the tale "In a Dark, Dark Wood," is once again chock-full of the kinds of details that sharp-eyed children love to spot, as the story ingeniously goes in for its close-up — down a dark village street, through a door, up the stairs and into a "scary scary cupboard" where a "spirit potion with a leaky cork" sits ready to release a hollow-eyed ghost.

Plus it's dangerous to jab probes directly into snowpacks in places where loose powder sits ready to plummet.

The boxes in the Thurgood Marshall Democratic Club in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, sat ready to be discarded this past weekend.

More than a dozen drab Willys Jeeps, a World War II-era precursor of today's brand, sat ready.

Paradegoers sat on the front stoop and a squadron of street cleaners sat ready on the curb.

He was sent no agenda, but he sat ready in his hotel lobby at 10 a.m. on the appointed day.

The flying bombs sat ready and loaded on the runways, the product of decades of research and refinement.