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sit in

verb
  1. To attend a class, educational presentation, meeting, etc. for one time, as a visitor.
  2. To take part in a group musical performance, especially a jazz session, as a temporary guest.
  3. To participate in a sit-in protest.
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I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · B2
Here we sit in a branchy row,
The Jungle Book, p. 63 · B2
Come now, sit in.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 196 · C1
I shall sit in that room and see if its atmosphere brings me inspiration.
The Valley of Fear, p. 73 · C1

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