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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My 3-year-old son is finally able to sit through a whole board game without getting, well, bored, and Candyland quickly became his go-to.
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Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 22 Nov. 2025
Brian May, who sings the first verse on the album version, wrote it after sitting through a 20-minute first cut of that section of the film.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The only people for whom this situation isn’t terrifying are us, the audience, who feel nothing but the purgatorial torpor of sitting through a movie that’s too afraid of its own concept to do anything truly provocative with it.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
So, the last president to actually sit through one of the exercises was President Reagan.
—ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
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Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 22 Nov. 2025
Brian May, who sings the first verse on the album version, wrote it after sitting through a 20-minute first cut of that section of the film.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The only people for whom this situation isn’t terrifying are us, the audience, who feel nothing but the purgatorial torpor of sitting through a movie that’s too afraid of its own concept to do anything truly provocative with it.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
So, the last president to actually sit through one of the exercises was President Reagan.
—ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
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“Sit through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20through. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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