if people sit in, they take part in a sit-in
He just said quietly," I was not asked here to sit in judgment upon the past.
In effect, their sit-in was a Hanford Out thing - clearly something which, if he was to retain authority, he had to resist.
It was only when tempers broke loose and they were bodily removed that the sit-in ended.
John Tanner, a renowned trouble-shooter, had been rushed over to Brentford from headquarters in Edmonton at the start of the sit-in.
`Ladies and gentlemen, protest in the form of a sit-in was commenced this morning by long-term prisoners in A Wing.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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