How to Use stay out in a Sentence

stay out

phrasal verb
Definition of stay outnext
  • Simmons had stayed out of the spotlight for the last decade of his life.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
  • Willow had gone over to a friend’s house and stayed out late.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Dial them all in and stay out of the way if things are working.
    — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Knicks still have to fight to stay out of the sudden-death Play-In Tournament.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • Women and children, the ones who must stay out of war and killing, at all costs.
    — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But the nonprofit stayed out of the research, Mares told me.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • And a big part of it, oftentimes, is just staying out of the way.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
  • When the gang filed in, G.N. trained two guns on them and invited them to get out and stay out.
    — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • Over time, the timid or those wired to avoid confrontation just stayed out of his way.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • This mini tree can stay out all year thanks to the gorgeous gold base that looks like a planter.
    — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In contrast to their parents’ public lives, the girls stay out of the spotlight.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, all viewings depend on pesky clouds staying out of the way.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Lawyers for Purdue and other parties to the agreement had urged the justices to stay out of the case.
    — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This makes my lashes look amazing and stay out all day.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 16 July 2024
  • Law enforcement is urging the public to stay out of the Fault Lake trail area.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For the Jayhawks, the biggest thing is not turning over the ball and staying out of foul trouble.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Gomez has addressed her split from Bieber in the years since, but now mostly stays out of the spotlight and away from the drama.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2023
  • Others feel the state should stay out of the dispute entirely.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And Kennedale will continue to stay out of the heat, beginning practice at 6 a.m. the rest of this week and all of next week.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • For the bulk of their relationship, the pair were busy trying to stay out of the spotlight and away from paparazzi.
    — Collette Reitz, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As that goal stayed out of reach, Kuroda adopted the negative rate and then the YCC program in 2016.
    — Toru Fujioka, Fortune Asia, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The fashion house is said to stay out of the business’s operations.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • To get face time with Lee, though, a prospective associate had to be willing to stay out late.
    — Albert Samaha, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Advertisement The public is warned to stay out of the dirty water.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In the days leading up to the vote, Democrats had wrestled with whether to help Mr. McCarthy survive, or at least to stay out of the effort to oust him.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes people would stay out until suhoor, the predawn meal, and only then head home to sleep.
    — Zaina Arafat, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But his family didn’t back down and the bear left the cabin again, and stayed out, KTVK reported.
    — Mitchell Willetts, Sacramento Bee, 26 May 2024
  • The Armenian government of Mr. Pashinyan stayed out of the fight.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • People are urged to stay out of the water and away from potentially dangerous places like piers and breakwalls.
    — Jolan Kruse, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The weather service urged people to find air conditioning, stay out of the sun and avoid leaving children or pets in unattended vehicles as cars could reach lethal temperatures in minutes.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024

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