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SIT IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Participate in an act of civil disobedience
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "sit in" is one way to...):
disobey (refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
sit-in (a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Attend as a visitor
Example:
Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class?
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "sit in" is one way to...):
attend; go to (be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
There was a chair just under the lamp, and the elderly man motioned that I should sit in it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And sit in the dark?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His extreme attention to my mother—wanting her to sit in the vicarage pew, that she might hear the better, for my mother is a little deaf, you know—it is not much, but she does not hear quite quick.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And yet they, of all creatures under the sun the most unfit, are the very creatures who decide what shall and what shall not find its way into print—they, who have proved themselves not original, who have demonstrated that they lack the divine fire, sit in judgment upon originality and genius.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Not liking to sit in the cold and darkness, I thought I would lie down on my bed, dressed as I was.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If I had the power to sit in judgement on her, I would see it done.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I understand, Mother, and quite agree, but I'm disappointed about Meg, for I'd planned to have her marry Teddy by-and-by and sit in the lap of luxury all her days.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He would soon be always gone; and she was thankful that she could now sit in the same room with her uncle, hear his voice, receive his questions, and even answer them, without such wretched feelings as she had formerly known.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
So at last they set out together, and took with them their little child; and she chose a large hall with thick walls for him to sit in while the wedding-torches were lighted; but, unluckily, no one saw that there was a crack in the door.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
