Verb
To take care of children in the absence of their parents; to work as a babysitter for someone.
To serve as a model for an artist or as the subject of a piece of art.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIt seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. Max Beerbohm
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. Lewis Thomas
I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest. Melanie Brown
That was my longing: for the mountains' divine solitude and peacefulness, for pure, white snow. I got tired of the big city. I am at home again in the mountains. There I sit for many hours amid their white virginity and find myself again. Joseph Goebbels