SAT in a Sentence

Learn SAT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
320 example sentences for SAT, such as:
1. She sat up in bed, listening.
2. The case was sat on by the court.
3. We sat down in the shade of the wall.
4. He sat with his arms across the chest.
5. The little boy sat in a gloomy corner.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  He sat down, drew his pipe from his pocket and stretched his feet to the glow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  As they sat thus he heard a sound behind him and turned his head.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
6  For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  Ethan sat speechless, not pretending to eat, but Mattie nibbled valiantly at her food and asked Zeena one or two questions about her visit to Bettsbridge.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  His impulses were still near the surface, and he sprang up, re-lit the lantern, and sat down at the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  At the kitchen door Daniel Byrne sat in his sleigh behind a big-boned grey who pawed the snow and swung his long head restlessly from side to side.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  In the middle of the floor stood her trunk, and on the trunk she sat in her Sunday dress, her back turned to the door and her face in her hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  "There's where we sat at the picnic," he reminded her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  She sat down on the tree-trunk in the sun and he sat down beside her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  She sat huddled in an arm-chair near the stove, and when I came in she turned her head quickly toward me, without the least corresponding movement of her body.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  He sat with his arms across the chest.
2  The girl sat down with a police artist to compile a Photofit of her attacker.
3  Kate sat up fully, her attention now totally concentrated.
4  A deputy attorney general sat ready to protect the interests of the State of California.
5  The baby sat in his high-chair,burbling happily.
6  He draped his jacket over the back of the chair and sat down to eat.
7  She sat up in bed, listening.
8  Joe sat on the bed while Martin was unpacking.
9  We sat in a patch of shade under a tree.
10  He sat through the trial as a standby juror.
11  He sat on the wall and watched the others playing.
12  We sat down in the shade of the wall.
13  I sat gazing at the blank screen, trying to think of something to write.
14  The little boy sat in a gloomy corner.
15  The case was sat on by the court.