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 Last year, Netflix added a subscriber tier where users who sit through sponsor messages pay a lower monthly fee. —

Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024 During deliberations, six alternate jurors who also sat through every minute of the trial will be kept at the courthouse in a separate room in case they are needed to replace a juror who falls ill or is otherwise unavailable. —

Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, TIME, 29 May 2024 On a recent Tuesday morning, a visibly frustrated Donald Trump sat through a tense hearing in the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president. —

Peter Eisler, USA TODAY, 15 May 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 Few areas of public life display that fear more vividly than development proposals, as anyone who has sat through a contentious zoning hearing can attest. —

David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024 Who would sit through days of bureaucratic meetings just to observe? —

Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024 The historic nature of the trial -- the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary was impeached -- contrasted with the almost routine feel of the proceedings after senators have sat through two previous impeachment trials against former President Donald Trump in 2020 and 2021. —

Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 18 Apr. 2024 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

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