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Sentence Examples When the carers who come in every morning tried to get him to sit up, he complained of pain in his back. He tried to sit up, plucking absently at the loose blue and white striped nightshirt, rubbing at an eye as he looked round the room. The call liquors are the name brand booze that sit up on a shelf for everyone to see. The power of the strike is such that even a casual observer would sit up and take notice. She began to sit up and he cartwheeled over her back, forcing her back on the ground. I was too out of it to sit up or hold the baby, so the nurse brought her over to me before they took us to our room and I kissed her goodnight. Olivia can also sit up, roll over, giggle, shriek, hold her own bottle, and put her own pacifier in her mouth. Then she started with a loud gasp, pulled her hand out of his, and tried to sit up while clapping her hand against her forehead at the same time. I love the way they sit up so perkily when they think they've run far enough. Parents, most of whom have so far been very indulgent about the cola-swigging habit of their offspring, have been forced to sit up and take note. A large hand caught her arm in a firm grip and steadied her, tugging so that she could sit up properly. When you contact the floor, immediately sit up into the next rep and toss the ball back to your partner. Kyle folds her into his arms, and though she struggles to sit up, to raise her head, he holds her on her back like she's a newborn. I'm not going to foolhardily dash into it, but I'm going to do more than sit up here and do nothing but go to school. He patted his stomach again, sighed, and leaned backward, as if he were so full he could not sit up straight. I sit up in the stands with the rest of the team and get a crash course in the game's fundamentals. She pushed the horse faster, but didn't sit up until the first light of dawn rose over the horizon. At daybreak, as he awakened again and struggled to sit up, a crowd of peasants gathered around him. The benches in the locker room sit up against the lockers for a more private feeling. Even mainstream political pundits have been forced to sit up and take notice of a new force emerging on the left. Show More Sentences She watched, hand poised at his back, as Emery grimaced and tried to sit up. He was going to have to sit up, and he nearly groaned out loud at the thought. The usual response to laryngeal obstruction usually caused by epiglottic or pharyngeal swelling is to sit up and forward. Washing his hair still isn't a problem because he has a tendency to sit up to play with his toys every now and then. I sit up, my messy blonde hair falling everywhere and look around for my clothes, or a dressing gown, but I see nothing. He tried to sit up but the aches in his body made him lie back flat on the bed. The stroller started moving so I took the cover off and helped the baby sit up and see where we were. My father wrapped me up in his bathrobe and I got to sit up with my parents drink flat ginger ale and watch Johnny Carson. I gave him the passenger seat in my Morgan roadster, put the top down so he could sit up and see the sights, then drove him home each day. I attempted to sit up on my bad arm but quickly realized that wasn't possible. His head spun and his body pained in various areas until he was forced to lie once again and sit up with a slower pace. The evidence is there and we will continue to demand a fair hearing until those in power sit up and listen to the truth. I nodded slightly, starting to sit up, ignoring the twinges of pain searing across my whole upper body. A welcoming friend, he would always look at a manuscript or sit up for hours to listen politely to a barmy argument. The churning feeling of pain gurgled up through his body as he tried to sit up. If your eyelids flickered, he'd sit up waiting for some indication that it wouldn't be long before the first long stroll of the day. Typically, developing children sit up, crawl, pull themselves up, then toddle. I moan and sit up with aiding pressure from my hands, and toddle into the restroom to splash water on my face. He would sit up and beg for food every few moments, at which point Kayty would take something off of her plate and hold it out for him. I didn't exactly sit up, but more bent my body in half and slumped against the wall. Show More Sentences I sit up in my bunk and swing my legs over the side, shaking my foot violently. Groaning, I attempted to sit up as I felt the sharp jabbing a of a bed coil that had long lost its spring shove its way into my side. And this morning, he insisted that Po should wear a bib, and should sit up at his little table to have breakfast with him. Film observers say that the industry needs to sit up and discuss its shortcomings. With effort, he tried to sit up and the hot, white pain that coursed through him was more than he could bear. The one that had stirred seemed to struggle through a haze to sit up, and finally succeeding, with a low moan of pain. She can sit up straight, is able to stand unaided for short periods, and has been writing Christmas cards to her friends. Parents say they hope the Department of Education will finally sit up and take notice of them, following Friday's protest. This presence in high profile Silicon Valley suddenly made the world sit up and take notice. Just as happened with the fuel crisis, the Westminster politicians will eventually have to sit up and take notice of Yorkshire's discontent. This is exactly the sort of statement that makes a book lover sit up and take notice and it certainly got my attention. And while the result was one the majority of pundits predicted, the Wasps' performance will have caused a few teams to sit up and take notice. It then occurred to me that maybe Josh was uncomfortable with the position we were in, so I moved to sit up. Then, I sit up, with my hands pressed to a bottom board of the shelf, pushing myself upwards. Her entire body was soon sore as she managed to sit up, rubbing at her throbbing head, trying to massage her temples. So when notoriously purist and discerning jazz critics single out a rising star to heap hyperbolic praise upon, gig after gig, it really is time to sit up and take notice. I gingerly moved to sit up, but a sharp pain shot through my body. More useful were sessions with Madame Mansouri, a physiotherapist, who was indefatigable in her attempts to get Kit to sit up unaided, to roll over and to crawl. If the patient cannot sit up, order a left lateral decubitus. Tanya was able to sit up for the first time by herself when she was eight and, to the uncontainable delight of her parents, stood up for the first time three years later. Show More Sentences Suddenly, a loud slam of the door made both of them sit up, startled. Barton Peveril's students are putting across a message which they hope will make other teenagers sit up and think about the perils of hitting the bottle. Amie is completely immobile she can't walk or sit up unaided. A surprise move like that could get people to sit up and take notice. He would sit up there for hours pouring over books and parchments. Cole nodded from his position below her and moved to sit up. As I struggle to find a way to sit up, I realize he's just belted me. So that should make a Fabian audience sit up and think twice. This wine has made a few Hawke's Bay winegrowers sit up and take notice. Sleep leaves me and I groggily sit up, glimpsing at my watch. Habits of a lifetime are hard to shake, but for your back's sake, uncross those legs and sit up straight. After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam. Many ground squirrels sit up and look like prairie dogs, but a ground squirrel can be recognized by its longer face and tall. As are those moralisers who sit up on the high ground bleating about how all life is sacred. We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick. I didn't think I'd be stepping on my sister's toes when I told my nephew to sit up straight at the dinner table. But if you are a consultant surgeon who continually patches people up so they can go out and get chibbed again, then I would suggest we should all sit up and listen. Commuters may sit up to two hours in traffic during rush hour. It takes a lot to get the cynical old musos to sit up and take note, but once the wheels roll into motion, something overwhelming becomes inevitable. Examples from Classical Literature Reuther, sit up here close by mother and let me talk to you for a little while. But I kept looking and after awhile I was able to sit up and ask what hit me. When we could see the brown bodies right above our heads I would sit up and bang away. He's got a ketch in his glutch and the Missus wants you to come over right now to sit up with him. Harwood might treat her, as she said, like a step-child with a harelip, but occasionally she made him sit up. After supper they must go immediately to bed, unless with the remainder of the castle they sit up for a jongleur. At school I have known her to sit up all night to make sure that she would be letter-perfect in her lessons the following morning. Peter cut a long hop short right in the middle, to sit up with shining eyes. A less effective precaution is to sit up all night near the vegetable garden and miaow. For several weeks she was dangerously ill, and was just able to sit up when Mr. minge discovered her. While he was able to sit up he would play on his mouth harp or hack away at his window sills with his jackknife. Madeira did not seem to be unconscious, but his senses were obtunded, and it was some minutes before he could sit up. Babby began to scream o' th' oud fashion, and we took it turn and turn about to sit up and rock it. They sit up behind the guns in a place that looks like the press box of a baseball game. In his gray world, he puttered with his nervous hands and tugged at his sheet but he could not sit up. I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil. Betty, why do you sit up at this hour of the night darning your stockings? Many of the children had been permitted to sit up beyond their usual bedtime. They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence. This is news to me, and I sit up, sharing Watty's astonishment. Show More Sentences We re-charged the acetylene lamps, for we intended to sit up late. And now that she could begin to sit up it did prefigure recovery. There's nothing like the clomp of bills on your doormat to make you sit up and smell the coffee. He will sit up, and clap his paws together, and say patty-cake. He began to sit up and listen for the toot of the Dinner Horn. I was presently so far advanced as to be able to sit up in a great chair and even giddily to walk into the adjoining room, leaning on Charley. An' sit up burnin' candle, an' lie a-bed wi' the sun a-bakin' you like a cowcumber i' the frame? For as he tried to sit up, he fell back sick and dizzy on the bed. As soon as he was old enough to sit up alone and toddle about, another affliction, the nervous motion of his body, became apparent. He had made them sit up and take notice, and now, willy-nilly, they were dealing him hands and clamoring for him to play. They browse over the earth, but can sit up and eat like the squirrel. It was reassuring, on such a night, to be told that some of the inn-servants had agreed together to sit up until morning. I've just woke up with the devil of an attack of asthma, and may have to sit up in my chair till morning. He's made Polly sit up, and Gray's been nearly off his crumpet. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits. You will have to sit up with Jacques to-night, Mother Colas. On Saturday, you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now. Find more words! 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