How To Use Sit up In A Sentence
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A pause in lecturing, consequent upon our mid-year examinations having begun, has given me a little respite, and I am paying a three days 'visit upon an old friend here, meaning to leave for New York to-morrow, where I have a couple of lectures to give.
Familiar Letters of William James II
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But one spam email this week really made me sit up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, I sit up, with my hands pressed to a bottom board of the shelf, pushing myself upwards.
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Now then, try to sit up and have some of this soup.
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They expected me to sit up and shoot the breeze with them till one or two in the morning.
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It's a shocking, audacious moment - one of the few times the film makes you sit up and take notice.
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A deep sigh resonated out of me as I tried to sit up.
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And then Ulster paid the penalty for those misses when the Saints again paid a rare visit upfield for Grayson to level with an angled kick.
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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.
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It was certainly intended that Charles should sit up to his neck in warm salt water for ten minutes, and Mr Young says that with the plaister, and with the greasy, and resisting quality of the ointment, that the water would not penetrate near so much as you seem to suppose it would.
Letter 170
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Sit up,and listen to me.
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And it's taken the flamboyant, folktronica multi-instrumentalist three albums for people to sit up and notice.
The Sun
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And this morning, he insisted that Po should wear a bib, and should sit up at his little table to have breakfast with him.
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It describes a foundering civilisation, soon to be overrun, with the obligatory postscript from a future archaeologist noting that the ruins sit upon evidence of yet another culture.
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After that they took the body and laid it on the sledge and drove to Bergthorsknoll, and drew it into the sheepcote, and made him sit upright against the wall.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
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That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon.
Springhaven
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Sleep leaves me and I groggily sit up, glimpsing at my watch.
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Today I had a snooze before getting in the bath; right now I can barely sit up and I haven't eaten.
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Twain delighted to have "Squire Hawkins" sit upon "the pyramid of large blocks called the stile, in front of his home, contemplating the morning.
Sergeant York And His People
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These protests have really made the government sit up and take notice .
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I can sit up on Nlack Mtn and be happy as anyone could ask for, if see shootable game, so much the better, but just being on top of the world is pleasant enough.
Bullets Do Odd Things at Different Ranges
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At daybreak, as he awakened again and struggled to sit up, a crowd of peasants gathered around him.
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At first the boy had not seemed much interested in what the teacher was saying, but when the teacher called him, he began to sit up.
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Next, find a comfortable and cozy thing to sit upon.
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He offers this advice for other aspiring comics with disabilities: If you can't stand up for yourself, sit up for yourself, and if you can't do that, make sure the mic is wired to your bed.
Josh Blue's comedy knocks out stereotypes
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The proposal had made his clients sit up and take notice.
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‘I don't have the strength to sit up, kid,’ he said in a dry, cracked voice.
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Kalandars sit upon a sofa at the side of the estrade, and seated the Caliph and Ja’afar and Masrur on the other side of the saloon; after which she called the Porter, and said, “How scanty is thy courtesy! now thou art no stranger; nay, thou art one of the household.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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With effort, he tried to sit up and the hot, white pain that coursed through him was more than he could bear.
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We don't allow the children to sit up late.
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If the patient cannot sit up, order a left lateral decubitus.
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Olivia can also sit up, roll over, giggle, shriek, hold her own bottle, and put her own pacifier in her mouth.
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My father wrapped me up in his bathrobe and I got to sit up with my parents, drink flat ginger ale and watch TV.
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When the carers who come in every morning tried to get him to sit up, he complained of pain in his back.
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She was a machine, inde - fatigable; she could sit up and hold him indefinitely and was ready to do so.
Juxtaposition
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When you contact the floor, immediately sit up into the next rep and toss the ball back to your partner.
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He watched her sit up and flick the ash on to the floor.
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The long, light, blindless dormitories, devoid of inner doors, were crossed at all hours of the night by masters visiting one another; for bachelors sit up later than married folk.
Stalky & Co.
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The benches in the locker room sit up against the lockers for a more private feeling.
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This should make people sit up and take notice.
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The proposal had made his clients sit up and take notice.
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With your hands lightly placed at the sides of your head, sit up to touch left knee with right elbow.
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But one spam email this week really made me sit up.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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These protests have really made the government sit up and take notice .
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He tried to sit up but the aches in his body made him lie back flat on the bed.
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The call liquors are the name brand booze that sit up on a shelf for everyone to see.
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The meteograph, with the anemograph, cost £600, but the great advantage is that no assistant is required to sit up at night, and that all the figures wanted for climatic constants are ready tabulated without any further labor.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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This news made us all sit up and take notice.
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Not be allowed to pass through to sit upon the sidewalk, roadway and railroad crossing guard - rails.
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The elf tried to get comfortable, turning and twisting until his bedroll was a shambles, then he had to sit up and untangle himself.
Dragons of Winter Night
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For peer-reviewed articles, it requires deposit upon publication, before the embargo runs, supporting what I call the dual deposit/release strategy or what Stevan Harnad calls immediate deposit / optional access.
Open Access mandate from the European Research Council
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So, too, is Shakespeare & Company's revival a wholly satisfying piece of work, a show full of bull's-eye moments that make you sit up straight in your seat and say, "I've been there—that's just how it is.
The Family and Its Discontents
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As he tried to sit up, a sharp pain speared through his head.
CODE BREAKER
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Lastly everytime there is a dispute where government have to step up they announce they are organising a panel to investigate however we never hear anything conclusive from them again this is just a stalling tactic so i think we are past that, they need to sit up and start changing things as it looks like more and more ppl are waking up to the fact that they are serving noone other than themselves. yebo gogo i like toy toy very much it our national sport - lets bring Zuma and it's un educated gang to the gound - we are tired of him - go go go we want new leader maybe Julias Malema he is give us just what we want
News24 Top Stories
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Sit up, do light housework, or take a walk until your body has had a chance to digest.
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Timson, a lifeboatman to the end, used the last of his strength to sit upright and try to stand.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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I managed to sit upon the camel, between the fatty hump and its snakey neck.
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With your hands lightly placed at the sides of your head, sit up to touch left knee with right elbow.
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People who need to use a chair for meditation should sit upright with their feet touching the ground.
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They have trained their dog to sit up and beg.
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Egypt; and the eggs of innumerable insects, and the spawn of fish, and of frogs, in this climate are hatched by the vernal warmth: this might be the case of birds in warm climates, in their early state of existence; and experience might have taught them to incubate their eggs, as they became more perfect animals, or removed themselves into colder climates: thus the ostrich is said to sit upon its eggs only in the night in warm situations, and both day and night in colder ones
Note IX
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She began to sit up and he cartwheeled over her back, forcing her back on the ground.
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"You sit up so straight, with real elegance."
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Whether the maid who was told off by the elder Milton to sit up till twelve or one o'clock in the morning for this wonderful Pauline realized that she was a kind of doorkeeper in the house of genius, and blessed accordingly, is not known, and may be doubted.
Obiter Dicta Second Series
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But a moment's further consideration convinced him that it could not be so: he _could_ move his body a little, although when he tried to sit up, something stopped him, pulled his spine straight, pulled his arms and shoulders back down from where he'd raised them.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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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.
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One by one, then ten by ten and twenty by twenty, the frail sacks of flesh stirred and began to pick themselves up, the stronger aiding the weaker; they climbed to their feet or rolled to sit up, groggy, shaky, hair a mess, unbelieving and begrimed.
Dead Zero
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It will visit upon us an important event at an inopportune time, as if to illustrate how inconsequential our influence on the greater scheme.
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I moan and sit up with aiding pressure from my hands, and toddle into the restroom to splash water on my face.
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One nurse holds the four drains while the second helps me to sit up and manoeuvre into a bedside chair.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have trained their dog to sit up and beg.
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He brought her a cup of coffee from an automatic pot, helped her sit up enough to drink the bitter liquid.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Even the most apathetic students are beginning to sit up and listen.
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We don't allow the children to sit up late.
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Film observers say that the industry needs to sit up and discuss its shortcomings.
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He patted his stomach again, sighed, and leaned backward, as if he were so full he could not sit up straight.
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She gave us slates to write on, made us chant some Empire geography facts, ordered us to sit up straight and swished her cane around with aplomb.
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The jurats being met to the number sometimes of two or three hundred, in this desolate place, are quite exposed to the weather and have no other place to sit upon but a moor-stone bench, and no refreshments but what they bring with them; for this reason the steward immediately adjourns the court to Tavistock, or some other stannary town.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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On the one hand did he permit himself to be outbidden his master might visit upon him his disappointment.
The Sea-Hawk
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So, too, is Shakespeare & Company's revival a wholly satisfying piece of work, a show full of bull's-eye moments that make you sit up straight in your seat and say, "I've been there—that's just how it is.
The Family and Its Discontents
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Even mainstream political pundits have been forced to sit up and take notice of a new force emerging on the left.
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Any indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils.
CHAPTER XXI
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This is a fascinating, frustrating, entertaining and perplexing voyage through his psyche: a posthumous psychoanalysis in which the prostrate subject never gets the chance to sit up and protest.
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This should make people sit up and take notice.
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I called her a damned hypocrite and that made her sit up.
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Now then, try to sit up and have some of this soup.
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I sit up to see myself safe through the narrow passage between Flat Island and Round Island, and fall asleep at last to the monotonous chant of so many "fathoms and no bottom," for we take soundings every five minutes or so in this reefy region.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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Next, find a comfortable and cozy thing to sit upon.
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The first-floor dining room is a place to sit up straight, hold your knife and fork properly and have informed conversations on current affairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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I look at how women sit all asprawl and think, "grow up, sit up and put those knees together!
Comportment
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He was going to have to sit up, and he nearly groaned out loud at the thought.
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At first the boy had not seemed much interested in what the teacher was saying, but when the teacher called him, he began to sit up.
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Madeira did not seem to be unconscious, but his senses were obtunded, and it was some minutes before he could sit up.
Sally of Missouri
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The Duke had now recovered his breath, and was able to sit up and give attention to what passed betwixt Dunois and Crawford, while the former pleaded eagerly that there was no occasion to mention in the matter the name of the most noble Orleans, while he was ready to take the whole blame on his own shoulders, and to avouch that the Duke had only come thither in friendship to him.
Quentin Durward
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So, when he expresses himself in a forthright style, people sit up and listen.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.
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So, when he expresses himself in a forthright style, people sit up and listen.
Times, Sunday Times
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He then slammed a metal bar across her head and whacked her again with it on her right shoulder as she tried to sit up.
The Sun
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They may be right, and if they are I shall moan and groan about the cold, the wet, the wind and whatever Nature may chose to visit upon me, of course I shall.
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So when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, acknowledged that the language of a recent IMF summit communique was "ineffective", that the time for "real action" had come and that he feared "a race to the bottom" as the major countries began to outdo each other in beggar-my-neighbour currency wars, you should sit up and listen.
History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
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The patient is well enough to sit up in bed now.
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Relax, sit up, uncross your legs, and listen to my voice.
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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.
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Indeed, virus-laden books and pamphlets sit upon my shelves with lonely chapters devoted to theorizing upon and delivering anti-anti-virus code.
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The patient tried to sit up but fell back weakly onto his pillows.
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I sit up straight, heart beating ninety miles an hour, images running through my mind of how that big booner will look in my crosshairs!
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
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As I struggle to find a way to sit up, I realize he's just belted me.
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They expected me to sit up and shoot the breeze with them till one or two in the morning.
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But one spam email this week really made me sit up.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Drizzt found a flat rock to sit upon and bade Catti - brie to join him.
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Then one day a little tentacle of the octopus, just to amuse itself, ingurgitated Dawe's capital, and he moved to the Gramercy Park neighborhood where one, for a few groats per week, may sit upon one's trunk under eight-branched chandeliers and opposite Carrara marble mantels and watch the mice play upon the floor.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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So when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, acknowledged that the language of a recent IMF summit communique was "ineffective", that the time for "real action" had come and that he feared "a race to the bottom" as the major countries began to outdo each other in beggar-my-neighbour currency wars, you should sit up and listen.
History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
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He then slammed a metal bar across her head and whacked her again with it on her right shoulder as she tried to sit up.
The Sun
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I didn't exactly sit up, but more bent my body in half and slumped against the wall.
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The dream ended there, and I must have slept on, for when I woke, sure enough I was still in the berth, but somehow I knew that time had gone by ... but why was there no feeling in my legs, and who was the chap in the armchair, smoking a black gasper in an amber holder, and rising and smiling as I strove to sit up but couldn't '?
Watershed
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I nodded slightly, starting to sit up, ignoring the twinges of pain searing across my whole upper body.
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When he tried to sit up, the room whirled and his head thumped like a pile-driver.
The Elvis Latte
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I sit up in the stands with the rest of the team and get a crash course in the game's fundamentals.
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A welcoming friend, he would always look at a manuscript or sit up for hours to listen politely to a barmy argument.
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The lions and their cubs sit up as he lollops nearer.
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We hired an araba, filled it with straw, and some boxes to sit upon, and set out very early, with two old umbrellas to shield us from the mid-day sun and the night dews.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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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.
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The two straighten, then bow, then sit up, ocular level again, she pounces, wilting him at the levator.
Kissing Cobras
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Sit up a little and touch your right elbow on to your left knee and then your left elbow on to your right knee.
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O'Sullivan was 15 when he first made the snooker world sit up - he became the youngest player to compile a recognised maximum break during the English Amateur Championships.
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We've claimed the two rocking chairs on the foredeck and sit up there and watch the yellow bank slowly rolling by.
Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)
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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.
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She can sit up and grab hold of the sides of her cot.
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Suddenly, a loud slam of the door made both of them sit up, startled.
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I could not sit up because my muscles had wasted away.
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Dinner is ready!" she called gaily as she ran; and the sound of her voice made Rebecca sit up quickly, and exclaim:
A Little Maid of Old Maine
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The churning feeling of pain gurgled up through his body as he tried to sit up.
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He would sit up there for hours pouring over books and parchments.
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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.
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Row after row of white tennis shoes sit upright on foot spikes like pristine, obedient soldiers standing to attention.
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He tried to sit up, but found the ground beneath him wet and sticky, as if the structure had simply been set floorless atop the marshland.
Conan Fan Fiction!
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Typically, developing children sit up, crawl, pull themselves up, then toddle.
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Sit up straight or lean forward slightly to show your attentiveness through body language.
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The wizard bade his apprentice sit upon another directly opposite, and Anest obeyed, wondering.
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She turns out to be an agency locum, and I ask her to help my father to sit up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her entire body was soon sore as she managed to sit up, rubbing at her throbbing head, trying to massage her temples.
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I just hope that the political establishment and society in general sit up and take notice of his common sense.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Maria succeeded, then everyone would sit up and take notice.
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The one that had stirred seemed to struggle through a haze to sit up, and finally succeeding, with a low moan of pain.
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The design encourages children to sit upright rather than slumped.
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The stroller started moving so I took the cover off and helped the baby sit up and see where we were.
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Typically, developing children sit up, crawl, pull themselves up, then toddle.
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She tried to sit up, but their monstrous sibling had wound itself around her, incapacitating her.
EVERVILLE
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Peter Winn lay back comfortably in a library chair, with closed eyes, deep in the cogitation of a scheme of campaign destined in the near future to make a certain coterie of hostile financiers sit up.
Winged Blackmail
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He struggled to sit up as he peered at Ymiru's work through his bleary eyes.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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Any person waking from a nightmare will sit upright and pant hard.
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Even the most apathetic students are beginning to sit up and listen.
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I attempted to sit up on my bad arm but quickly realized that wasn't possible.
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I gingerly moved to sit up, but a sharp pain shot through my body.
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She gave us slates to write on, made us chant some Empire geography facts, ordered us to sit up straight and swished her cane around with aplomb.
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Bobby adjusted his long body to sit up on his buttocks rather than his sacroiliac.
The Houseguest
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Sit upright at a table with pen and notebook.
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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A large hand caught her arm in a firm grip and steadied her, tugging so that she could sit up properly.
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That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon.
Springhaven
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The evidence is there and we will continue to demand a fair hearing until those in power sit up and listen to the truth.
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Any ale drapers and mutton mongers at the back should sit up straight and stop fiddling with their inexpressibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The script is a howler that'll make you sit up in shock before rolling over with laughter.
The Sun
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She pushed the horse faster, but didn't sit up until the first light of dawn rose over the horizon.
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“Ye have fought through all this day and are aweary of fight; so it behoveth that you return to your places and sleep and not sit up.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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a woman friend may be, the prospect of meeting her does not inspire a fellow-woman with sufficient energy to sit up until after midnight to cover a shabby lace blouse with ninon, or to put a new silk collar and cuffs on a half-worn coat.
The Independence of Claire
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He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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This wine has made a few Hawke's Bay winegrowers sit up and take notice.
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The tools of this trade are scattered throughout the exhibit - calipers for measuring head size, eye and hair color charts, and a device that looks fit for torture that was used to make subjects sit up straight for measurements.
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He struggled to sit up as he peered at Ymiru's work through his bleary eyes.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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One of the joys of doing this semi-regular feature, scouring through catalogs, is every so often you come across a real jewel, or at least something that makes you sit up and take notice.
Thin wallets, fat bookshelves: HarperCollins fall catalog | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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While this is a matter which is fundamentally tied to the need for liturgical study and ecclesial authority, it may do well, particularly as we sit upon the very time itself, to leave off with a practical suggestion for parish priests wishing to recover some sense of the octave, even within the present circumstances of the modern Roman calendar.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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Leo helped me to sit upright on the floor while supporting my back with his elbow.
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The bench upon which they are commanded to sit upon is called the mourner's bench.
Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker
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These protests have really made the government sit up and take notice .
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The proposal had made his clients sit up and take notice.
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Sit upright in a chair, preferably one with a firm back, with your feet flat on the floor in a comfortable position.
Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
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She watched, hand poised at his back, as Emery grimaced and tried to sit up.
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She can sit up straight, is able to stand unaided for short periods, and has been writing Christmas cards to her friends.
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It was hard work ot slide down a yard, turn over and sit up; but it was even harder for Smoke to remain flattened and maintain a position that from instant to instant made a greater call upon his muscles.
Smoke Bellew - The Little Man
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Amie is completely immobile she can't walk or sit up unaided.
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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.
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He also ordered, that as it had been customary for the gonfalonier to sit upon the right hand of the rectors, he should in future take his seat in the midst of them.
The History of Florence
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The word degenerate has appeared in 43 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 25 in Sit Up Straight.
NYT > Home Page
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The loud dong caused Donnie to sit up and rub his eyes.
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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.
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-- Being founded upon a rock, it does not care, in its collective capacity, to sit upon rockers, but has an immense series of warehouses, omnivorous and eupeptic, which swallow all manner of tithes, from grain and horseshoes to the less stable commodities of fresh fish and melons, assimilating them by admirable processes into coin of the realm.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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Why would you sit up there in the moral high ground if you could get your team a penalty by coming down a bit?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Even the most apathetic students are beginning to sit up and listen.
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She tried to sit up, her eyes fixed on Jean's face.
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As he lay gathering strength to sit up in bed, which treat had been promised him in ten days, Aladdin's mind worked hard over the future, and what he could machinate in order one day to be almost worthy to kiss the dust under Margaret's feet.
Aladdin O'Brien
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He told the children to sit up and not slouch.
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She couldn't sit up or move, and the pain was unendurable.
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The ground floor has two guest suites and forms a solid platform for the main section of the house to sit upon.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is not the kind of classroom where you can sit up the back and not be noticed - students are expected to know the entire process in shearing the wool and getting the product ready for market or export.
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But the thought of her mum actually going made Ann sit up with shock.
IN REAL LIFE
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He was left with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and needs special equipment to stand and sit upright.
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He is a grave and reverend signior, with rosary in hand and Koran on lip, is generally a pilgrim, talks at dreary length about Holy Places, writes a pretty hand, has read and can recite much poetry, is master of his religion, demeans himself with respectability, is perfect in all points of ceremony and politeness, and feels equally at home whether sultan or slave sit upon his counter.
First footsteps in East Africa
