Sentence examples for take sitting down from inspiring English sources
verb
To tolerate, accept, or acquiesce; to take no action.
- I hope he doesn't think he can get away with such an thing. I'm not going to take this sitting down.
ONE thing I can't take sitting down is being ignored.
Abdou and Ahmed spent the first five months of their incarceration underground in a freezing-cold solitary confinement cell, a space just 2.35m by 1.65m, designed for one person but used to hold up to 15 people at a time, forced to take turns sitting down in the cramped room.
Residents rarely take anything sitting down, however.
Well, actually, Mr. Rattner did take it sitting down -- on the Charlie Rose show on Monday night.
"It was so crowded we had to take turns sitting down," she said.
"It's a blood bath for the public hospitals, and we're not going to take it sitting down," he said.
"This was our way of responding to that and letting folks know that we were not going to take it sitting down".
Naturally, Ellison wasn't going to take that sitting down, and fired back at Benioff, calling Salesforce "the roach motel of cloud services".
Sheen, 48, never one to take things sitting down, happened to catch the appearance and issued a public apology on Twitter following Kutcher's plea.
People protesting against the new UK porn laws are taking it sitting down outside Parliament.
The intelligence officials involved aren't taking it sitting down, either.
