sit through

1. see sit out, def. 1.

Example Sentences

And if he has to sit through commercials to watch “Survivor” on cable, he’ll move on.

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We are trying to imagine what it was like to be a general or admiral in that room and to have to sit through this.

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"If meeting the deadline is looking possible, people are prepared to sit through long hours - the longest I did was 24 hours," he recalls.

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He forced Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to sit through a jovial, not-quite-joking discussion of the Great White North as the 51st state.

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Former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh, a frequent critic of the president, said the embarrassing incident just last week when Trump made the President of South Africa sit through a presentation condemning his government by using manipulated photographs of murdered “white farmers” was yet a new low point.

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Related Words

• brave 
• encounter 
• experience 
• face 
• feel 
• go through 
• know 
• ride out 
• suffer 
• sustain 
• tolerate 
• undergo 
• weather 
• withstand