How to Use stay on in a Sentence

stay on

phrasal verb
Definition of stay onnext
  • Here’s where to stay on your next trip to the Holy City.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And all the awful stuff stays on that to the other side.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s where to stay on your next trip to this part of the Sunshine State.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2024
  • Try these tips to stay on track the next time you are tempted to stray.
    — Becca Stanek, theweek, 24 June 2024
  • The commercial flight brings four crew for a short stay on the ISS.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The pack comes with 90 easy-to-peel DEET-free stickers that stay on and last for hours.
    — Jean Chen Smith, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
  • Workers walked off the job at the first three plants on Sept. 15 and stayed on strike for more than 40 days.
    — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Is that a better deal than staying on this side of the pond?
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
  • And the average days homes stay on the market have been less than a month for most of the year.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The results spoke for themselves: the car would stay on sale all the way until 1991.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Reach for one of these tool belts that’ll keep with your motion and free up your hands to stay on the job.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Tom Selleck still has hope for Blue Bloods to stay on the air.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 May 2024
  • Their all-white Grammy looks in 1993 stay on our minds rent-free.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The man doesn’t stay on message, but his campaign does.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Visitors are urged to stay on trails and not pick any of the flowers.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The rules are easy to understand (the dealer stays on all 17s) and the software is top-notch.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • When sealed, the lid stays on remarkably well, with no leaks.
    — Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Block planned to stay on guard and pull the string whenever the peacock entered the cage.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Last week the Fifth Circuit Court issued a stay on the Texas ruling.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Routine, of course, has played a large part in Casas’s ability to stay on the field.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Lopes stayed on the card, accepting a last-minute matchup with Dan Ige at 165 pounds.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • No matter if that’s off the court, how to get extra minutes on the court, stay on the court, things like that.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
  • The woman died on the highway and the driver stayed on the scene, Camacho said.
    — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Wade resigned from the case, allowing Willis to stay on it.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Supporters stayed on their feet for most of the last three innings.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The driver of the truck stayed on the scene and did not immediately face charges.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
  • Even the chefs, masseurs and cleaners who work on the island of Gladden stay on a smaller isle, a short trip away.
    — Tristan Rutherford, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The amount of the bonuses will vary depending on how long the airmen are willing to stay on board.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • There is a booking fee of $16 to sign up for the dinner and overnight stay on Airbnb, marking the year that Dench and Hinton met.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Garcia is able to stay on top of his horse but also impedes Borel and A.U. Miner.
    — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

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