How to Use sit-up in a Sentence

sit-up

1 of 2 noun

• Get some squats, push-ups, or sit-ups soon after the meal.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2023
• Think sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, crunches or squats, as examples.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• For sit-ups, male officers must do 37 in one minute and female officers 31.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Oprea and Kelsea do Bosu ball throws (or crunches on a Bosu ball while tossing a weighted ball to a partner), sit-up claps, side planks, and elbow planks.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 3 June 2023
• Here are 4 things to know and how to treat them If your abdominal muscles are not strong enough to do good sit-ups, begin with crunches (partial sit-ups).
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• Sweating from push-ups, sit-ups and using a rowing machine is one thing, but a session at Hotworx is something else again.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• The singer lifted weights on a sit-up bench with his spotter, also cooly rocking sunglasses indoors.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• The boy has plenty to do each day of the war: jumping jacks, sit-ups, pushups, gorilla swings, and tree pose during breaks from reading and doing the math in workbooks scavenged from the rubble of his school.
  — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• With the Olympics in mind, van Gorp is breaking for up to two and a half hours each day, plus gym sessions and calisthenics – body-weight strength training like push-ups and sit-ups – in pursuit of winning gold.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Exercises like push-ups, squats, sit-ups, lunges, and planks can improve muscle endurance.
  — Jenny McCoy, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
• Every night a family member had to remain awake to monitor David, who would jerk into 30-minute frenzies of rapid sit-ups.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• In the clip, the actress completes her full-body workout, which featured weight lifting, mountain climbers, push-ups, sit-ups, lunges, and more before finishing with some stretches.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• The moves included throwing punches while doing sit-ups, sparring at a fierce pace, dodging punches, and kicking her sparring partner in the abs.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the video, Olympia (wearing a ruffled red dress) carefully lifts her baby sister (in holiday jammies) from the ground and lowers her back down, holding her hands the whole time — for a sweet version of baby sit-ups.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
• Keeping up with a consistent weight lifting routine can be tough, but 15 minutes of crunches, planks, sit-ups, and push-ups can be transformational.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2023
• Kate usually kicks things off with a compound exercises that work two muscle groups at once (think: bicep curls with a squat and sit-ups with combination punches).
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• This sit-up variation of a Russian twist strengthens rotational core movement and improves your ability to generate power from the core.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 2 June 2024
• These include planks, crunches, reverse crunches, sit-ups, hanging knee raises, mountain climbers, scissor kicks, leg raises and bicycle kicks.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• Kids can do traditional abdominal crunches, bicycle crunches, legs-up sit-ups, and more.
  — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 3 July 2024
• Under current Secret Service qualification tests, male and female candidates are held under different fitness standards for push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, and the mile run.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024

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sit up

2 of 2 verb

• The passing lane down the line was open, and the ball sat up for a clean strike.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• As Locke shifts his body to sit up, a gun is seen in his hand.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• New are options to prompt you to rest your eyes and to sit up straight.
  — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2022
• Think of your chimney as a tiny house that sits up on your roof.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• The two sat up front for the show, even sharing a kiss that was caught on camera!
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• Clooney is shackled in the back of a prison van, with Lopez sitting up front.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Turn to sit up in the hammock or lie facedown, then turn over to face up.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2022
• Turn to sit up in the hammock or lie facedown, then turn over to face up.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024
• Holland stayed on the ground briefly, then sat up, went to the sideline briefly and returned for the next play.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2024
• It’s described as suitable for all ages as long as the child is able to sit up.
  — Jessica Rach, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024
• And some ideas have to sit up here (pointing to the head) for a while to gestate and become ready and right.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• To go back on his word -- and I'm supposed to sit up here and stand for a man who went back on his word?
  — ABC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Lewis appears to sit up in bed and raise a hand in the moments before he is shot.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
• For a sit-in at a lunch counter, they were told, sit up straight, be courteous and don’t strike back.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• The city sits up against the fence, next to Mexico, with homes and businesses.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
• Cure can be seen sitting up at times and flailing his arms.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• The driver sat up front and the passenger squeezed in behind.
  — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
• Sarah sat up and back in a posture of intense alertness.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• My only choice at that point was to sit up and wait for others to start working with.
  — Rob Reed, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Robertson said Aniya, now over 6 months old and sitting up, is deeply loved.
  — Sarah Kwon | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• After a week in the hospital, Harriet was too weak to sit up on the side of her bed.
  — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
• When sitting up, don’t cross your legs, and sit with your back straight and supported.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 11 Oct. 2024
• One morning my mentor and I sit up in the thickening grass.
  — Patrick Cottrell, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Two were sleeping, sprawled like giant house cats, but a third sat up and watched us through narrowed eyes.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• The village of concrete and thatched roof dwellings sits up on a dune, so people there can catch cooling breezes in the summer.
  — Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• So if the Heat like a player enough to warrant longer looks, that causes observers to sit up and notice.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• By his second day, therapists there helped Smith start to sit up.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
• My girlfriend is sitting up in our bed looking at her phone.
  — Bela Shayevich, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• Coaches and execs sit up front, players toward the back.
  — Chad Graff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
• The image showed Bronze sitting up straight in a folding chair with a smile on his face, while wearing a flannel hoodie and cargo pants.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025