to stay until the end of something, especially if you are not enjoying it
A regeneration committee could sit through six stuffy meetings and not come up with anything half as good.
And there are few things more annoying than sitting through a film thinking'there is no way he would have done that'.
Board members should not have to sit through a meeting having reports read to them.
I sat through the meeting with my head bowed.
If I have to sit through one more boring meeting, I think I’ll scream.
It isn't as bad as sitting through Titanic but it might well be worse than having a baby naturally.
Or it could sit through endless office meetings while you actually got on with some work.
To be frank, it's not really worth sitting through the film to find out the answer.
Very now, too, but who wants to sit through a board meeting?
You only have to sit through a meaningless meeting to know this.
You sit through a boring meeting.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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