Sentence examples for was ordered to sit from inspiring English sources

He was ordered to sit down on the street.

Norton was ordered to sit in the "hot seat," a prominent chair at the building's security post generally reserved, residents say, for petty humiliation.

As ten other prisoners watched, he was ordered to sit in a chair, and his arms were tightly bound to it.

Mrs. Kaste is a fire lookout, practitioner of a craft that this summer is celebrating its 100th anniversary, having been invented in Bertha Hill, Idaho, when a timber camp cook was ordered to sit in a hilltop tree and look for smoke.

In July, sources revealed Major League Baseball was preparing to hand out suspensions to those involved in the scandal surrounding the Biogenesis clinic, some time after the All-Star break – sure enough, on 22 July Braun was ordered to sit out the remainder of the season, 65 games without pay.

We were ordered to sit down.

They were ordered to sit down and to allow the women and children off first.

Meanwhile the rest of the crew are ordered to sit quietly downstairs, and wait for the scene to finish.

Agents have also had to double up in patrol vehicles, or have been ordered to sit in their vehicles without driving.

Female council members in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to sit in separate rooms to their male counterparts and only communicate with them electronically.

We were marched down a ramp into an underground car park beneath the police station where we were ordered to sit, around the walls, still handcuffed, and forbidden from talking.