sit through

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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Then Elliss watched the running back sit through every special teams meeting during his rookie year. — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Try to go through the same process a customer would when doing business with your company, such as visiting a physical location for a tour or requesting and sitting through a demo. — Brandi Watterson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Rodriguez never leaves home without his little tin of Jacobsen sea salt, because why sit through an underseasoned meal that could otherwise be delicious? — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 These physicians and their colleagues have spent their careers delivering hard news, sitting through prior sessions where study after study of pancreatic cancer were outright failures or provided only meager, incremental benefit. — Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2026 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 5 Sep. 2026.

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