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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The city covers roughly 241 square miles and sits about 380 miles north of Tokyo, well outside Japan’s major metropolitan corridor.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
But now, rather than offering dilapidated houses for a euro, the town of Radicondoli, which sits about an hour outside of Florence, wants to give you a little startup capital for your relocation instead.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2025
The breakwater structure would use a concrete material that is better than rock for attracting marine life and would sit about 900 feet from shore.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
The academy and Harlem Park's building sit about half a mile away from one another, leaving some students to walk further to get to class.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
But now, rather than offering dilapidated houses for a euro, the town of Radicondoli, which sits about an hour outside of Florence, wants to give you a little startup capital for your relocation instead.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2025
The breakwater structure would use a concrete material that is better than rock for attracting marine life and would sit about 900 feet from shore.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
The academy and Harlem Park's building sit about half a mile away from one another, leaving some students to walk further to get to class.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
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“Sit about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20about. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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