How to Use sit about in a Sentence
sit about
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Guam is about the size of the city of Chicago and sits about 1,500 miles east of the Philippines.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
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Instead, the campground sits about a mile northeast of the lake.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
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There is a canopy next to the food truck with a couple tables to sit about eight people.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
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The home sits about 200 feet from Norfolk Southern’s tracks.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
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The southeastern front line now sits about 75 miles from Zhovti Vody.
—Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
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Adjust the straps so the helmet sits level, and the brow of the helmet sits about a finger-width above the eyebrows.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
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The ski resort sits about an hour outside of the state’s capital, Salt Lake City.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
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The inn, located in Millersburg, sits about an hour south of Akron, on 56 acres of private land.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2023
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Alan Murray: All of you may not know this, but the governor of Georgia is sitting about 200 feet away in the next room.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
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This one, while about the size of a spacious living room, was up to 3 meters in height and sat about 8.5 meters below the surface.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
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The public area on the west side of the lake is a popular spot on summer weekends and sits about 45 miles north of San Francisco Bay.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
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During a day at the beach, Indie kept approaching James, who was sitting about 100 yards away.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
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The resort sits about 330 feet up a mountain slope and offers spectacular views of the famous peak.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2023
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The center divider sits about ¾ of an inch below the top edge of the sink, which discourages water from splashing out of the sink if the flow of water from the faucet hits the center.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2023
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The town sits about 25 miles from Iceland's capital, Reykjavik.
—Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
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This working-class neighborhood sits about a 50-minute metro ride east of central London.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
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On a rainy night last month, down an alleyway in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, in a restaurant basement, sat about two dozen retirees.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 June 2023
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The prison facility where the vehicle was located sits about 5 miles west of the airport.
—Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
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The ruins of Mitla sit about 30 miles from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico, built on a high valley floor as a gateway between the world of the living and the dead.
—Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
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Crew: The more traditional hiking sock length, crew cut socks sit about six to eight inches above the heel and work well with all types of hiking boots, especially the ones with high cuffs.
—Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
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Seldovia sits about 137 miles as the crow flies southwest of Anchorage on the tip of the rugged Kenai Peninsula, directly above where the tectonic plates meet.
—Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
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Behind him sat about a dozen journalists, including me.
—Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
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The nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, an unremarkable (and invisible to the naked eye) red dwarf sitting about four and a quarter light-years away from us.
—Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
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Formerly a two- to three-week trek from Kathmandu, today the journey is most likely to begin at the Lukla Airport, which sits about 35 miles (60 kilometers) from base camp.
—Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Even on the heels of his four historic indictments, Trump's support has not waned, with polls showing the former president sitting about 40 points ahead of the rest of the Republican candidates.
—Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
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Instead of a parade, the lakeshore suburb, which sits about 27 miles north of Chicago, will have a remembrance ceremony and community walk.
—Susan Berger, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
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Topsail Island sits about 40 miles northeast of Wilmington.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 18 June 2024
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Smith himself was in the courtroom and sat in the front row behind the prosecutors handling the case, sitting about 20 feet away from Trump and looking in his direction — though neither appeared to gesture at or talk to each other.
—Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
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Archaeologists say that traditions of Aztec sacrifice likely trace back to the city of Teotihuacan, at least in part, which sat about 30 miles to the northeast of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
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Additionally, the universities sit about four miles apart, and Dow did not see a reason for having two similar programs so close to each other.
—Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2023
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