How to Use stay over in a Sentence

stay over

phrasal verb
Definition of stay overnext
  • Chloe’s boyfriend at the time had moved in and his young children sometimes stayed over.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • In a season where the Yankees are struggling to stay over .500, this could be his year.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In a 1-and-1 count against Schwarber, Ferguson threw a cutter that stayed over the heart of the plate.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Rooms can cost at least $2,000 a night, though it’s not known if Jenner and Gamble stayed over.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And many of the guests stay over, all of them sleeping in one room like at a giant slumber party.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024
  • The girls stayed over at their grandmother’s house that night and returned home the next morning, June 4.
    — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The Sox stayed over the salary cap, got worse and didn’t really change the path of the organization.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Fortunately, the region has seen a huge influx of new places to stay over the past few years.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2023
  • My ex is ambivalent and does not seem to care whether our daughter stays over the weekends with me or not.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • One reason the Diamondbacks have been able to stay over .500 is their lack of cold starts up and down the lineup.
    — The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The three women lived at the off-campus house, and Chapin was staying over for the night with Kernodle, who was his girlfriend.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 May 2024
  • My mother sometimes stays over and sleeps in his office, which doubles as a guest room.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Ali often stays over as well, with his mother thinking good old Uncle Winston will keep the kids in line.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Police met the three girls who stayed over at Meyden’s house and their parents at the hospital the following morning.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That means there could be as many as 156 season games played there, not including spring training or playoffs, during the MLB team’s stay over the next three or four years.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 20 June 2024
  • And in a Consumer Reports survey from this year, more than half of the respondents said that hidden fees had pushed their hotel stays over their budget.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The slow-moving storm will stay over the region through tomorrow or even Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • For now, it’s expected to stay over the tropical Atlantic while working westward.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Category 3 storm is not forecast to make landfall and is expected to stay over open waters through Friday.
    — DÁnica Coto, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Collard, who was staying over at Dart’s place, immediately took her friend to the hospital.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • After dinner, anyone staying over was expected to entertain the group — tell jokes, sing songs.
    — Curbed, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The three women rented the home with two other female housemates who went unharmed in the November 2022 fatal attack, while Chapin was Kernodle’s boyfriend and stayed over for the night, police said.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 17 Apr. 2024
  • As an apologetic gesture, the guilty culprit, Tu Wei, a fellow classmate from an affluent family, invites Shuo to play video games and to stay over for dinner.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But this year, temperatures stayed over 80 degrees overnight and high humidity persisted around-the-clock.
    — Emily Kask, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Elton John is recovering after a brief hospital stay over the weekend.
    — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In the meantime, the city has also been posting new signs in the area reiterating warnings to beachgoers and surfers to keep their distance — especially during high surf — and stay over 75 feet away from the battered structure.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Their fellow islanders, however, picked Kocourek to stay over Gonzalez.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The shelter Horn runs provides 50 beds at night, showers and laundry services in addition to bringing in groups from other community organizations to provide job information or mental health services to those who stay over.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023

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