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 crowd started to clear out at that point, unwilling to sit through wind, rain and a blowout loss.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 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
• Are any of these turns worth sitting through nine hours of smutty true crime recreations?
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 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
• Then, on May 16, the couple’s granddaughter sat through a polygraph test, the warrant states.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 July 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
• Live news is an effective way to get audiences to sit through ads.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• 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
• First lady Jill Biden sat through nearly every day of the trial but did not make it into the courtroom in time to hear the verdict.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
• 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
• One day, Moeller sat through much of a class wearing a University of Kentucky baseball cap.
  — Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The Loons had to sit through a near-two-hour weather delay due to thunderstorms that hit Children’s Mercy Park at halftime.
  — Jon Marthaler, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2024
• All those whoppers are familiar to anyone who has sat through any of Trump’s rallies; all have been debunked.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• Who would sit through days of bureaucratic meetings just to observe?
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Boyd, who sat through the trial, said her brother did not use drugs but began selling them to support his three daughters, the youngest of whom was an infant when he was killed.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Think about this: While the intense summer volatility was difficult to sit through, all of it was necessary for the next set of bullish formations to take shape.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024