sit in
verb- To attend a class, educational presentation, meeting, etc. for one time, as a visitor.
- To take part in a group musical performance, especially a jazz session, as a temporary guest.
- To participate in a sit-in protest.
From the library
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
Here we sit in a branchy row,
Come now, sit in.”
“Kitty and I are going upstairs to sit in my dressing-room.”
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