sit around

phrasal verb

sat around; sitting around; sits around

: to spend time doing nothing useful

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

Examples of sit around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Part two is mean dad, which is sort of sitting around the table before somebody gets sent home asking tough questions about things that went wrong. —Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 May 2024

Tips that appear to have spread indicate that the asparagus has been sitting around for quite some time. —Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024

Recently, some people behind a new ranking system for bars sat around this bar, too. —Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024

One of my pet peeves is: Don’t sit around me or near me and then have your phone at full volume. —Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024

Groups can be seen sitting around fires, while others walk around the beach. —Katie Polglase, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024

One of the rarest modern Jaguars is just sitting around waiting to be bought. —Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024

Our tendency to sit around indoors when winter hits compounds the risk. —Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024

Meanwhile, plenty of lawmakers and others are aware there is $1.8 billion sitting around potentially unspent and not appropriated at a time when $3 billion in requests from state agencies went unfulfilled in next year's budget just passed by the South Carolina House. —CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024