Read full poem →Soon as she spreads her hand, the aërial guard
Descend, and sit on each important card:
First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore,
Dictionary Entry
To block, suppress, restrain.
In a Sentence
“The chairman sat on the report until the end of the legislative session.”
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Poetry examples for “sit on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To that cold, grey, damp, smelling church,
And I had to sit on a hard bench,
Wriggle off it to kneel down when they sang psalms,
Read full poem →got dull. [would go out and walk around in the backyard, looking at things,
bugs mostly. Or I would sit on the grass and imagine things. One thing I
imagined was that I was a great baseball player, so great that I could get a
Read full poem →The grandstand was built of temporary planks for the people to sit on.
We went underneath. We saw two guys standing under the center of the
Read full poem →How should I rest in Paradise,
Or sit on steps of Heaven alone?
If Saints and Angels spoke of love
Read full poem →But the birth-pangs of nations will wring us at length
Into wail such as this -- and we sit on forlorn
When the man-child is born.
Read full poem →I call in the boy,
Have him sit on his knees here
To seal this,
Read full poem →boats they never will sail in, shoeing horses they never will ride,
making chairs they never will sit on, and all with a frenzied
intentness. I may get my conviction as much from his drawings as from
Read full poem →To that cold, grey, damp, smelling church,
And I had to sit on a hard bench,
Wriggle off it to kneel down when they sang psalms,
Read full poem →In the old homestead rests the cottage cow;
The dogs sit on their haunches near the pail,
The least one to the stranger growls "bow wow,"