Sentence examples for when it sits from inspiring English sources

The United States cannot stand up for justice and the rule of law when it sits idly on its own record of torture.

I guess when it sits on your forehead it's not necessarily a hat.

You don't know a good thing when it sits up and begs outside off-stump (unlike Gus Logie).

However, the "lapability"—Microsoft's term to describe the stability of the device when it sits on your lap is now much improved.

Typical of the approach was when Andy Griffith, a pitchman for Ritz crackers in television commercials in the 1970s, declared, "Everything tastes better when it sits on a Ritz".

I feel it looks best when it sits within a well-anchored furniture arrangement where it might rest behind a pretty table with a lamp and create an elegant corner composition.

Many of us reached the conclusion that the United States was wrong not when it intervened in the affairs of others, but when it sat on its hands, as it did in the case of Rwanda.

Yin said his client planned to move to Canberra by the end of next week – work began before senators entered the chamber, with discussions taking place so parliament was effective when it sat.

They sued five men and the Real IRA as an organisation for up to £14m in a case which made legal history when it sat to hear evidence in both Belfast and Dublin.

West Yorkshire Police said the three documents it had discovered identified that a man, due to give evidence to the inquiry when it sat in Bradford, was the subject of a police report.

Now and again I climbed up into the front seat of the rig when it sat idle, barely able to see over the dashboard.