sit through

phrasal verb

sat through; sitting through; sits through
: to go to (something) and stay until the end
We had to sit through another boring meeting.

Examples of sit through in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Troconis, who is from South America and speaks both Spanish and English, sat through multiple interviews with police in English, which her lawyers said led to confusion and misunderstandings. Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2024 Live news is an effective way to get audiences to sit through ads. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024 While her father sits through the excruciating experience of watching an actor in his favorite shirt womanize and behave boorishly while dictating a book, Sophia anxiously awaits her father’s response to the show at lunch with her mother, who has her own baggage with Sophia’s father. Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 22 May 2024 The crowd started to clear out at that point, unwilling to sit through wind, rain and a blowout loss. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sit through 

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“Sit through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20through. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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