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Sentences starting with sat

Sat down to listen, I suppose. [5]

Sentences ending with sat

She turned to where Shon sat. [11]
You can see where she sat. [5]
That day I was so hungry for the sight of her that I got my field-glass--used to watch my vessels and rafts making across the bay--and trained it on the window where I knew she sat. [11]
She did not tremble any longer, but remained ominously still, as if she had been frozen where she sat. [6]
He had forgotten to take his soft, wide-brimmed hat off; and Beaton felt a desire to sketch him just as he sat. [8]
When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat. [2]
He whistled quietly to himself for a little, and then called the old man over to where he sat. [11]
He did not speak, but came and placed the things he carried near the chairs where we had sat. [11]
I arranged a seat for us, and we all sat. [11]
Long time they sat. [11]

Short sentences using sat

She sat like wax. [11]
Wilson sat down victorious. [5]
He sat down to rest. [13]
The king sat thinking also. [11]
We sat like statues.... [9]
He sat there smoking, imperturbable. [9]
Then my father sat down. [5]
Obstinacy sat enthroned on him. [11]
They sat and never stirred. [11]
She sat and listened. [12]

Sentences containing sat two or more times

The king's lawful wives sat on his left hand; Nitetis next to him, then Atossa, and by her side the pale, plainly-dressed Phaedime; next to this last wife of Cambyses sat Boges, the eunuch. [10]
But Sam'l sat there, and sat there, and sat there, and after a while the old man pulled out his dinner-pail. [9]
We sat at the table till twelve o'clock; but you must not imagine that everybody sat still all the time, or that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, the principal object of the entertainment was eating. [4]
She sat in the smithy-man's doorway with her hand in his; and she sat at the Manor table with its silver glitter, and its antique garnishings, with as real an unconsciousness. [11]
The head of the family sat in the foreground, and beyond him extended a sharply receding and diminishing row of sons; facing him sat his wife, and beyond her extended a low row of diminishing daughters. [5]
At the small table sat several other guests besides myself, and at the general table sat the chief officers of the garrison. [5]
Arrowhead looked on stern and immobile, but when at last she and the factor's wife sat down before the braves with confidence and an air of friendliness, he sat down also; yet, famished as he was, he would not touch the food. [11]
The old man sat watching the shadows as they trembled in this patch of light, until the sun went down; and when it was night, and the moon was slowly rising, he still sat in the same spot. [12]
On the platform sat the chairman, and by his side sat a man who held a manuscript in his hand and had the waiting look of one who is going to perform the principal part. [5]
Next to me sat an English bride, and next to her sat her new husband, whom she called "Neddy," though he was big enough and stalwart enough to be entitled to his full name. [5]

More example sentences with the word sat in them

I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
As I wrote you, he sat up both nights, with Preston--he could not be induced to leave the room. [9]
I can see you now almost as vividly as I saw you that night when you sat flashing and beaming upon those sombre swallow-tails. [5]
After many, many years the man sat by a coffin, in an empty home. [5]
Never in the years that had gone had there been such silence between them as they sat together. [11]
I sat every year for five years, trying to satisfy that insatiable organization. [5]
In Parliament she would have sat on the right, but that her adopted country should have a Parliament filled her with joyful pride. [10]
And sometimes he would go to the corner table, where the four littlest sat, and fetch one back to perch on his knee and pull at his white, military mustache. [9]
And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
Pierre, without a word, began cleaning his rifle, while Macavoy smoked, and sat looking into the distance, surveying the sweet warmth and light. [11]
A very lovely woman, dressed like a queen, lay on silken cushions in the middle of the vessel; by her side sat a man of larger stature than that of ordinary mortals. [10]
He was a wizened little man with faience-blue eyes, and sat habitually hunched up with his hands folded across his shins. [9]
Princess Mary listened without understanding him; she led him to the house, offered him lunch, and sat down with him. [2]
The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. [2]
He sat still without saying a word. [6]
She had waked without moving, had observed the scene without drawing the attention of a man--a sentry--who sat beside the tent-door. [11]
Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
Tom sat down within a few feet of her. [9]
His method was withering sarcasm, and he was clearly unable to control his animus.... No champion appeared to support Krebs, who sat pale and tense while this denunciation of him was going on. [9]
Big Tom sat with us before the fire and told bear stories. [4]
The Little Chemist, with timid courtesy, showed her out of the room, then came back and sat down. [11]
She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings. [10]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow hospitality, did the honors to the prince. [2]
It all began with the news Milly Skinner had got from the stage driver, imparted to Jethro as he sat reading about Hiawatha. [9]
She sat long, with the letters in her lap, thinking--and unconsciously freezing. [5]
Madame Marie sat with the doctor beside the bed of her dear mistress, and in another room, George Fournel, with the Avocat, kept watch beside the body of the Seigneur of Pontiac. [11]
Austen sat down, with the corner of the desk between them, while Mr. Flint opened the boxes and began checking off the papers on the list. [9]
Inside the house, with the bearskin blind dropped at the window again, and the fire blazing high, Loisette sat with the Governor's reprieve in her hand. [11]
Again, I sat with Nick under the trees on the lawn at Temple Bow, and the world was dark with the coming storm. [9]
Sometimes I sat with my back against the dunes watching the drag of the outgoing water rolling the pebbles after it, making a gleaming floor for the light to dance. [9]
Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
Only Pierre sat with masterful stillness, his eyes never moving from the face of the player; his arms folded; his feet firmly wedded to the floor. [11]
Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
At the table, with his head sunk in his arms, sat Dyck Calhoun, snoring stertorously, his drawn sword by his side. [11]
Parpon, however, sat with his head in his hands. [11]
This being sat with his great hand clasped to the side of his head. [11]
Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
The Emperor Charles, with his forehead resting on his hand, sat absorbed in thought before the papers which had occupied his attention. [10]
He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating. [5]
There he sat with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands when Burlingame entered the room. [11]
I sat up with him till midnight--it wasn't any picnic" . [9]
I have sat with him by the hour listening to Jim Nye's yarns, and I reckon you know the style of Jim Nye's histories, Clemens. [5]
Having sat awhile with her visitors without understanding anything of what they were saying, she softly left the room and went to the nursery. [2]
When I sat with her on deck at night, I seemed to feel Boyd Madras's face looking at me from the half-darkness of the after-deck; and Mrs. Falchion, whose keen eyes missed little, remarked once on my gaze in that direction. [11]
Many a time, with her mother, she had sat upon the shore at St. Aubin's Bay, and looked out where white sails fluttered like the wings of restless doves. [11]
Still laughing hysterically, with her golden hair streaming about her head, folding her round like a veil which reached almost to her ankles, she came back to the chair at the dressing-table and sat down. [11]
Aunt Kate sat with her feet on a hassock, rocking gently and watching and listening. [11]
She sat down with her embroidery in her lap, and for some moments busied herself with it in silence. [9]
The Governor sat with hands clinched upon his chairarm. [11]
The Trader sat with eyes fixed humbly as a dog's on Pierre. [11]
He himself rode with dignity, though this journey was the first occasion on which he had sat on horseback. [10]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
Gaston had acted with coolness and common-sense; and when he sat down and began talking of the Englishman's picture again as if nothing had happened, the others followed, and the meal went on cheerfully. [11]
Alma was left with Beaton near the piano, and he began to talk about the Dryfooses as he sat down on the piano-stool. [8]
Within, a man with an eagle nose sat impassive, and I set him down for one of the king's ministers. [9]
He sat listening with a troubled look. [9]
And," she added, with a smile, "it would be much more comfortable for us both if you sat down. [9]
Presently a stranger with a long-tailed coat on came in, and not noticing Brown's hat, which was lying in a chair, sat down on it. [5]
By the street windows sat the Honourable Brush Bascom, sphinx-like, absorbing wisdom and clouds of cigar smoke which emanated from the Honourable Nat Billings. [9]
In the bow window jutting out into the street, where the old grandmother sat in her armchair, two green and yellow parrots on brass perches interrupted the conversation, whenever it grew louder, with the shrill screams of their ugly voices. [10]
She opened the window and sat down by it. [4]
She sat near Wilson, and looked her friendliest. [5]
There was in William Wetherell, as he sat in the chair with his eyes fixed on his visitor's face, a dignity which Mr. Merrill had not seen before--had not thought the man might possess. [9]
A grizzled cut wig sat somewhat awry under his bearskin hat. [9]
His loving old wife sat near by, contentedly knitting and thinking, with a cat asleep in her lap. [5]
The old magnates, whom Pierre knew, sat and turned to look first at one and then at another, and their faces for the most part only expressed the fact that they found it very hot. [2]
There are people who would have sat in it, if the seat had been set with iron spikes. [4]
Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. [2]
It was Euphrasia who took matters in her own hands and killed the fatted calf, and the meal to which they presently sat down was very different from the frugal suppers Mr. Vane usually had. [9]
The steadfast man, who sat so silently with frowning brow among his family, sometimes attacking the viands on his plate, then leaving them untouched, did not look like one who yields to idle whims. [10]
The little woman who sat retiringly at one end of the seat was all in brilliant colors from bonnet to flounce, like a paroquet, red and green predominating. [9]
And the woman who sat opposite him seemed, like one of her own nectarines, to be the fruit that crowned it all. [9]
The Hilary Vane who sat beside her to-day was not the same man. [9]
It was Stephen who lifted her, and helped her to the coping, where she sat with her bandanna awry. [9]
One of these--he who had spoken of his brother--was her little favourite and friend, and often sat by her side in the church, or climbed with her to the tower-top. [12]
On the doorstep, whittling, sat a bearded, unkempt farmer with a huge frame. [9]
In a plain white-washed room, behind a plain oaken desk, sat Mr. Flint--a plain man. [9]
As before, a white man sat with supreme indifference at a table, and in front of him three most unhappy chiefs squatted in the grass, the shame of their irons hidden under the blanket folds. [9]
He began to whistle, while Wetherell sat and wondered that any one could be so care-free on such a mission. [9]
They sat there while Jacques went for the horse. [11]
I confess that while I sat there, in an audience so keenly in sympathy with the play--almost a part of it, one might say--I doubted if I understood your people as well as I thought I did when I had been here a week only. [4]
Once in a while I paused to ask him a question as he sat with his chair tilted back and his feet on the table, reading a detective story. [9]
The next morning, while a score or more of delinquents sat in the anxious seats, Justice Garry recognized me and gave me precedence. [9]
In Zorrillo's tent, which was usually brightly lighted until a late hour of the night, only one miserable brand was burning, beside which sat the sleepy bar-maid, darning a hole in her frieze-jacket. [10]
The homestead by which they sat was in a wilderness of blossoms. [11]
At the inn which they had now reached Justinus got out and desired his companion, a pale-faced man who sat sunk into a heap, to do the same; but with a weary shake of the head he declined to move. [10]
The chair in which the President sat, while declining to take a glass of lager I have had destroyed, in order that no one may sit in it. [4]
The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which--or the spot must be a wretched one indeed--cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree. [12]
The rock on which he sat securely awhile ago is completely under water. [6]
The cushions among which he sat had come from Constantinople, the rug at his feet from Tiflis, the prayer-rug on the wall from Mecca. [11]
The dignity with which he appeared in public was truly imperial and unapproachable, and even when he sat with his intimates in his favorite room he was grave, gloomy and taciturn. [10]
But she sat where she was until the maid came in to pull the curtains and turn on the lights, reminding her that guests were expected. [9]
Under the porch, where she had sat when Heaven in its mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, she passed again; and the old church received her in its quiet shade. [12]
Entering the room where Lepage sat alone, he said: "Lepage, the time has come for good-bye. [11]
Somehow, the room where his mother had sat for so many years, and where he had last seen his father, John Grier, had a coldness of the tomb. [11]
As they passed where he sat, Kit looked so wistfully at the little turn-out, that the old gentleman looked at him. [12]
He straightened himself where he sat, and did not let his eyes wander from the young lady's face. [11]

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