The top deck was crowded and didn't have any shade, but it beat sitting in the stuffy compartments below.

Burroughs beat sitting Governor Mechem by less than one percent of the vote (103,481 to 101,567).

"That beats sitting here being buried forever in a sand dune," Kando snapped.

The focus here is food, and it certainly beats sitting at home eating starch and grease from cartons.

"It'll beat sitting on our asses, that's for sure."

Yes, I felt lousy; but it beat sitting for hours in a dreary airport.

I tell people that golf beats sitting in a doctor's office.

At least it beat sitting in class.

But it beats sitting in the house while they're out here having all the fun.

Williams played 26 lively minutes, which beats sitting on the bench any time.