to sit through
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3.0
- phrasal verb
- /sɪt θru/
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- Even though the movie was long, I managed to sit through the whole thing.
- sit through a lecture
So you have to be able to sit through it to be able to get to the next step.
- So you have to be able to sit through it to be able to get to the next step.
- It, it sounds intense coming out of my mouth, but it's easier than sitting through first class science.
- But that's a much longer appointment, one that I would gladly sit through.
- It's one of the toughest interviews, probably the toughest interview I've ever sat through.
- If you saw your films playing one night on television, which would you most likely actually sit through and watch the whole thing?
- And there was a demand, as you just point out, for reparations to the students just for having to sit through the meeting.
- No matter how interesting the idea is, if it is my dinner with Andre, I'm not going to sit through it.
- So then I'd rather remove myself, travel away, be away in my own thoughts, then sit through it and see my mum's sadness, something that I can't change in her.
- But simultaneously trying to set a boundary, it can also place your new partner in an awkward position of having to sit through this.
- You know, like, because for me, having to sit through that damages, I leave damaged.
- It didn't really sink in though until I made myself sit through this from mainstream news coverage.
- They enable the parents to come up to school and sit through these.
- And to me, particularly at that one moment when we had all been sitting through horror struck the Kavanaugh hearings.
Examples
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If she had to sit through it one more time, she would go absolutely insane.
Fiction book (1995) -
And by the way, those of you who were with us this morning deserve a special award for sitting through this twice because we did get into some of these issues this morning.
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So you have to be able to sit through it to be able to get to the next step.
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If you saw your films playing one night on television, which would you most likely actually sit through and watch the whole thing?
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How do you expect me to sit through half the night without some television?
Fiction book (2002) -
How was a guy supposed to sit through hours and hours of school on his birthday?
Fiction book (1999) -
Oh my God, I just sat through that whole film thinking about how much I just wanted to go home and play South Park.
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And unlike in the old days when you had to sit through class, you can take their courses anytime and at your own pace.
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I sat through 12 of your performances in four cities before I got up the nerve to pitch to you.
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Do we not all remember sitting through certain classes in quiet desperation?
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
42
4.3
Stay where you are until bad weather or danger passes
2
3.9
Stay in a place or situation until something boring ends
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
sit + through
The sense 'stay until the end' is directly inferable from combining 'sit' (to remain seated) with 'through' (from start to finish/completely): together they naturally mean remain seated for the whole duration of something. This compositional pattern (verb + particle indicating completion/duration) is common and predictable for B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Sit through comes from the simple image of someone who must sit and wait through an event until it finishes. That's why it means 'to stay until the end' of something long, boring, or unpleasant.