What is "sat around"

Usage examples of "sat around".

Fifteen minutes ago, the two had sat around the corner in Terrell’.

The remaining occupants of Crask sat around in the big sitting-room, as though in a daze.

Old men sat around iron-legged tables playing chess, drinking coffee, dreaming of peace.

In later years I have sat around Arizona camp fires and heard this subject discussed heatedly.

And afterwards, when the last game had been played, the last present opened, when the boys and girls had waved good-bye and disappeared up the street, the grownups sat around and talked of the new president and the many strange things that were happening in the country, and little Tommy sat in the middle of the floor, listening and recording everything and glowing warmly, because somehow during the whole afternoon no one had said or done anything cruel to him.

The company sat around the great gaming-table, with piles of colonati and louis-d'or lying before them.

The dream boys were the ones who sat around and thought about entirely new ways of doing things.

Karl, Chak, Walter, and Henrad, Andy-Andy's apprentice, sat around a common bowl of stew, eating a late supper.

Everybody raced to produce that new weapon and then sat around and shivered for fear we'd be crazy enough to use it on each other.

Several chrome-and-black-leather chairs sat around a marble cube coffee table covered with upscale magazines, and potted plants sat in the corners under their own little puddles of light .

All day the General and Chaplain Haverford were fussing about licenses, and those girls sat around and waited, and looked droopy but sort of happy - you know what I mean.

Well, he just sat around in the hotel lounge, reading the papers and so on, till it was time for dinner.

He, Patricia Givens, Honor, Nimitz, Hamish, Samantha, Elizabeth, Ariel, and Lord William Alexander, the newly created Baron Grantville and Prime Minister of Manticore, sat around a conference table of brilliantly polished feran wood.

Nikki asked as we sat around the table munching on a small salad that Mark had prepared for us--apparently with an ax judging from the state of the vegetables in it.

And the sparks of the camp fire went straight upwards as they had done for hours, and the men that sat around it saw them go: for long they had not seen the sparks stream upwards, for their thoughts were far away with the mandolin.