Sentence examples for sitting ready from inspiring English sources

The U.S. Treasury, virtually undefended, was sitting ready for looting.

The instant reaction and off-the-cuff eulogies were held together with packages and profiles that had been sitting ready for this moment.

Unlike after the Commons vote to extend airstrikes to Syria, RAF planes are not sitting ready to launch the first strike within hours.

"There are only so many buyers for a given set of works, and they're not all sitting ready to spend money on you," he said.

Here are the key paragraphs: Earlier this year, a senior Nato decision maker told me that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery.

One night a few years ago, after the staff had left, she surveyed the company's design center in East Hartford, Connecticut, and counted hundreds of powerful Unix workstations sitting ready but idle.

Once you gave me the thumbs up the whole thing tumbled out pretty quick, like it had all just been sitting there ready to go.

They're sitting there ready to form a new government.

Well guess what, I'm sitting back ready to take on the challenge too.

"Guys, thank you … but I am currently sitting here ready to start my night shift in Worthing.

"So we're basically sitting here ready to spend the money, create the jobs, but we don't have a permit to even start turning dirt," he said.