How to Use sit through in a Sentence

sit through

phrasal verb

• And everybody who's in the nightclub has to sit through the ad.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• But no one wants to sit through a six-hour music video.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• Each of them signed the guest book and sat through the service, which lasted about an hour.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• And those are the two things that can keep him from being able to sit through something.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
• Still, in his first 14 years, Rashad had sat through five services.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• The 18 dogs that were able to sit through at least 10 trials were included in the analysis.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Five-year-old Louis was likely deemed too little to sit through a long tennis match.
  — Town & Country, 18 July 2023
• After a long two days of court naps and having to sit through mean memes, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to throw a tantrum.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
• According to the thread, the father did not want to sit through the concert and needed someone to walk his daughter to her seat.
  — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
• Princess Kate and Prince William's 5-year-old son did not sit through the latter half of the two-hour ceremony, likely due to his age.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 May 2023
• The ones who have had to stomach too many bad hot dogs while sitting through too many our-team-is-out-of-the-race-but-I’m-here-anyway games in September.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Each sat through a scene in all its edges and color, hyperreal to surreal, and walked on.
  — Sophie Yun Mancini, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
• Cold and rainy weather might have been the last thing fans were hoping to sit through for while taking in a lacrosse game Tuesday night, but that didn’t dampen the heat of the battle on the field.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
• Still, Gaetz is no stranger to forcing Congress (and the rest of us) to sit through round after round of agonizing votes for House speaker.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• For them, there is also pleasure in being able to sit through a meal without obsessing about what’s for dessert.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• All 17 jurors have sat through the entire trial, not knowing who will be excused at the end as an alternate.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2024
• There’s probably a four-hour version of the movie that nobody would want to sit through, including myself.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
• Who would sit through days of bureaucratic meetings just to observe?
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
• Like its predecessor, this is one of those movies made to be watched again, though more in bits and pieces here than sitting through the whole thing, which perhaps best defines the gap between them.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 June 2023
• Having sat through four years of lectures is not, on its own, a qualification for much of anything.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2023
• And without any sort of real-time analysis of how well the dialysis is working, patients must sit through the whole session.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2023
• Producers can squeeze in little jokes, bloopers, and even fun facts that help clarify the ending for people who sit through all the credits.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
• This is a great show for families with little ones who may not be able to sit through a traditional stage performance.
  — oregonlive, 12 July 2023
• Kang’s latest isn’t a page-turner, and reading it can feel like being suspended in time, or sitting through a very long class, despite the book’s slimness.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Having sat through all five of those losses here, the first is still most remembered because Florida scored on the opening kickoff and coasted to a 56-7 win.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• In high school, Jamie Cutter sat through lectures on abstinence in a city that had one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in California.
  — Gillian Dohrn, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• That meant that Roberts-Smith sat through months of civil testimony that often felt like a criminal trial.
  — Michael E. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• After sitting through the trial and combing through records and news clippings, Cunningham’s daughter agrees.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The feeling is one of mandatory fun; the audience isn’t actually charmed, but forced to sit through antics they’re clearly meant to find charming.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 May 2023
• Mays drove to the Wilcox on the 12th, sat through an orientation and, finally, was escorted to his new home, a small but comfortable second-floor studio apartment.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024