sit for
Verb
Meaning
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.orgSynonyms
Examples
It 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.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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.
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.
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.