Example sentences for: sit-down

How can you use “sit-down” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (A sit-up , with a hyphen, exercises your abdominal muscles, but a sit-down strike tends to exercise the tempers of management.)

  • The Chechen president, who denies any affiliation with the guerrillas, has requested a sit-down with Boris Yeltsin, but for now the Russians aren't having any of it.

  • Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."

  • In one chapter, "Journey on a Davenport," he tucks himself in on his mother's couch and goes on a sort of existential sit-down strike.

  • Bull Connor advised FDR on Southern matters until FDR's death, ran Birmingham for almost three decades after Eleanor's sit-down protest, and was even the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama during the Kennedy administration.)


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