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vb. (present participle of sit down English)
Usage examples of "sitting down".
The boys and girls madly pedaling their bicycles might have been hurrying home to eat their usual Saturday supper of fried chicken and okra before sitting down to watch Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody on their fifteen-inch black-and-white televisions.
It was a forced not caring, you know, but I decided come Hell or high water I was going to wash my hands before sitting down to eat.
She raised her head, to see a big man with red hair and a red face, in Space Force green, with the single star of a major on his shoulder, sitting down.
The villagers appeared to be sitting down in rows, but there was some movement to and fro.
DE GUICHE (overcome by curiosity, sitting down on the bench): Then?
There were three nags, and two mares, not eating, but some of them sitting down upon their hams, which I very much wondered at.
With what anguish of mind the President sees that we, the new conquerors, forgetting everything we professed to fight for, are sitting down with watering mouths to a good square meal of ten years revenge upon and humiliation of our prostrate foe, can only be guessed by those who know, as he does, how hopeless is remonstrance, and how happy Lincoln was in perishing from the earth before his inspired messages became scraps of paper.
The earl considered sitting down anyway and daring Janacek to respond, but instead he reminded himself yet again that one of them had to at least pretend to be an adult.
A private dance, without sitting down to supper, was pronounced an infamous fraud upon the rights of men and women.
And sitting down by her, was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised, and persuade her to speak openly.
Consider, she is sitting down--which naturally presents a different--which in short gives exactly the idea--and the proportions must be preserved, you know.
Clara pulled up a stool, and sitting down beside her sister, passed her arm round her waist.
Now the highest order of mortals were sitting down to their dinners, and the lowest order to their suppers.
The old squire, before sitting down, walked round the hall to greet the tenants and make polite speeches to the wives: he was always polite.