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I . sitting [ˈsıtıŋ] N

II . sitting [ˈsıtıŋ] ADJ

2. sitting:

sitting
坐(着做)的 zuò de

fence-sitting N

sitting president N

sitting room N mainly Brit, living room

Usage examples with sittings

two sittings for lunch
午餐的两次开饭时间

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
His ongoing portrait project of artist have been intimate, close-up sittings, typically conducted in the artist's studio.
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Should a coder fail to get both papers within 3 sittings they must resit both papers on the fourth (even if they had passed one of the papers previously).
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She specialises in portraiture, particularly of young people, painted from photographs rather than live sittings.
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Portraits did not generally require lengthy sittings; typically a series of preparatory drawings were used to flesh out the final panel.
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Wildlife will be affected by the proposed development, with confirmed sittings of barn owl, cuckoo, lapwing, skylark, goldfish, sparrow hawk, little egret and hares on the site.
thelincolnite.co.uk
The medium may obtain information about their sitters by secretly eavesdropping on sitter's conversations or searching telephone directories, the internet and newspapers before the sittings.
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He was able to wangle 18 separate two-hour sittings.
www.telegraph.co.uk
The church served hot lunches over the course of three sittings, with traditional offerings including turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pie.
www.theglobeandmail.com
She started her working life as a switchboard operator in a commerce bank and did some sittings as a photographer's model.
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This building helped to resolve the problem of over-crowding at lunchtime, allowing lunch to be served in two sittings, rather than four.
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