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# How to pronounce "sit through" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/sɪtθrɒʊ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **sit·through**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "sit through" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "email well we are going to bombard you with emails for like five more days and all you're committing to is you will show up next Monday night 7:00 you'll sit through about an hour meeting you'll write down Marco Ruby on that piece of paper and you can leave that's all we're asking someone my age I have three kids I have to find a babysitter so I can go to the meeting for 2 hours and so it might cost me $40 to $50 just to go caucus so uh convincing people how"
- **Watch at 3:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HUXsX0Tao&t=189s)

### Example 2
> "of elite teams across the world who'd won various tournaments, qualified for this. And I know that because my team Chelsea won the Club World Cup. So I had to sit through a Halime show at the final against PSG. Honestly, like um usually halfime is when I just go and make a cup of tea and I come back and you know look at my phone. This thing went on for so long. I think I went outside, had a kick around, spoke to my mom on the phone, came back, still saw"
- **Watch at 6:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqTyh24_Dm4&t=416s)

### Example 3
> "We should make and give academic credit for life experiences. Why sit through an entire business management course for a semester, when you can have a university evaluator assess you based on your experience?"
- **Watch at 4:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mAg3_A6ye8&t=272s)

### Example 4
*Accent: UK*
> "impatiently sit through jiggling his foot except for the year he discovered an adaptation of joro which he thought was a rare example of good sense in a"
- **Watch at 6:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w54DO8PHzSw&t=382s)

### Example 5
> "But they had to sit through hours and hours listening to the same thing over and over again."
- **Watch at 17:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCFhiNMKFI&t=1061s)

### Example 6
> "able to sit through my own presentation, why would someone else want to sit through it, as well."
- **Watch at 28:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4byOefldNdU&t=1719s)

### Example 7
> "Can you sit through a 50% bear market?"
- **Watch at 35:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1RhAWzUCsc&t=2157s)

### Example 8
> "Can you sit through an 80%?"
- **Watch at 35:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1RhAWzUCsc&t=2159s)

### Example 9
> "of their money and 70% of their educational time working out how on Earth this business of love works. Is that true?" We spend hardly any time rationally thinking about it. None of us are made to sit through classes in attachment theory, classes in apology, classes in listening, classes in communication. No, you know, physics is important, geography is important, don't get me wrong. But is there no time for this, given its role in our lives? Do we really want to leave this"
- **Watch at 7:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRMcimuuk0Q&t=467s)

### Example 10
> "One of the meetings every week early on when I was watching him was Mars colonizer. And we'd sit through a two-hour meeting about what would the governance structure be on Mars? What would people wear?"
- **Watch at 89:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOV5R7M1Js&t=5378s)


## How to Pronounce "sit through"

- **Syllables**: sit · through
- **IPA**: `/sɪtθrɒʊ/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[sit](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sit), [through](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/through)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “sit through”?
“sit through” is pronounced /sɪtθrɒʊ/ (sit · through). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “sit through”?
“sit through” has 2 syllables: sit · through.

### How can I hear “sit through” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “sit through” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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