What is "sitting around"

Usage examples of "sitting around".

The artillerymen were sitting around, disgruntled at not being able to join in the spree.

And when by and by, for an instant, the air clears, and the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones.

We're a merchant ship with an economic crew, not an army of folks sitting around in case there's a cargo to be shifted without stevedores.

He also has them sitting around a TV set-in a book started four years after World War I.

This might explain some of Microsoft's behavior, such as their policy of keeping eerily large reserves of cash sitting around, and the extreme anxiety that they display whenever something like Java comes along.

Recently, when we were, so to say, sitting around the borders of the supernatural late at night, MANDEVILLE related a dream of his which he assured us was true in every particular, and it interested us so much that we asked him to write it out.

A bunch of eugenics freaks sitting around over their three-dimensional chess boards, telling themselves how smart they are, griping about the decay of society and one of them—.

The answer, reluctantly given, was a surprise to all sitting around that table, but especially to Mr.

Tully, Rob Wiley and Rafe Aguilera were sitting around a coffee table littered with newspapers.

I can see Walter and Ahira and Riccetti from here, sitting around the fire, arguing.

Aren't you going bugward sitting around watching tape-drums turn and little meters and gauges and shit?