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.
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The upshot is that their fans have instead sat through more than a decade of dreadful baseball, when maybe a committed rebuild early on in the process might have cut that stretch of agony in half or less.
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
Diddy’s daughters sat through this testimony, looking forward.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 13 May 2025
Melly’s legal team urged Broward Circuit Court Judge John Murphy to allow Miramar Police Detective Mark Moretti to sit through another deposition, or a sworn interview with a witness.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
Expand All The prosecutor in YNW Melly’s murder case, days into first rounds of jury selection, requested that the South Florida rapper’s mother be barred from sitting through the retrial.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
Diddy’s daughters sat through this testimony, looking forward.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 13 May 2025
Melly’s legal team urged Broward Circuit Court Judge John Murphy to allow Miramar Police Detective Mark Moretti to sit through another deposition, or a sworn interview with a witness.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
Expand All The prosecutor in YNW Melly’s murder case, days into first rounds of jury selection, requested that the South Florida rapper’s mother be barred from sitting through the retrial.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
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 4 Jun. 2025.
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