sit about

phrasal verb

sat about; sitting about; sits about

chiefly British

: to spend time doing nothing useful

He sits about and does nothing while I do all the work.

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At Fort Mason in San Francisco's Marina District, which sits about 50 feet above sea level, a crowd had started to form of people looking for a glimpse of a tsunami wave that never came. —

Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 Both of those returns are far more impressive than those for the SPDR S & P Retail ETF (XRT) , which is currently sitting about 8% in that time. —

David Keller, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025 Middletown straddles Butler and Warren counties and sits about halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton. —

Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2024 The nebula sits about 5,900 light-years from Earth and is revealed in different colors due to the filters used by the Hubble telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 filters, which captured specific wavelengths of light to build the image. —

Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sit about