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Example sentences for "stayed"

Lexicographically close words:
staving; staw; stay; stayd; staye; stayes; stayest; stayeth; stayin; staying
  1. But it was for your sake that I stayed behind.

  2. But for that second act the pearls would have stayed comfortably here all through the season.

  3. We only took our ulsters with us, and it poured all the time, and we stayed in bed in the little inns while our things dried, and it was immense fun; the Duke drove us.

  4. He wished that Helen Starratt had stayed at home where she belonged.

  5. If he stayed long enough the night would come when Storch would call upon him for a testimonial of hatred.

  6. You'd better have stayed where you came from.

  7. Mother, of course, stayed home on Sunday to "pick up" and get ready for supper in the absence of the servant girl.

  8. It was time Helen stayed home where she belonged.

  9. Mary stayed with the widow helping her to wet handkerchiefs and to make bandages out of old linen.

  10. She stayed three days and three nights at my brother's turning the children's pillows till they were carried out.

  11. Then again he reappeared, and wherever he stayed for a while, the raging element abated its fury.

  12. She could not, she dared not, do what was required of her, and yet the overweening love of life which exists in every mortal led her feet to the base of the idol and there stayed her steps.

  13. In DeWitt there was a number of Saints who had purchased land and settled there, and Elder Taylor stayed at the house of a Brother Humphreys.

  14. Near Columbus, the capital of Ohio, they stayed at a town where a number of brethren resided, and all were anxious to hear Elder Taylor preach.

  15. The gentleman with whom he had stayed in Paris, M.

  16. Near Indianapolis, Indiana, Brother Mills and the other brethren who had joined their company, obtained employment, and Elder Taylor and his family stayed at the house of a Brother Miller.

  17. I have been in this city about three weeks, and stayed in Kanesville about as long.

  18. Afterwards the happy pair went down the river and along the coast to Malacca to spend their honeymoon; while Ned Murray stayed at the campong to look after the specimens and enjoy himself to his heart's content.

  19. Mrs. David Gemmell let the leading ladies of the town understand that unless Mary was invited to everything that was going on, we stayed away ourselves.

  20. He stayed to supper that evening and went with Mary to church afterward.

  21. Belle told me she kept on that line of conduct during the whole week that Miss Martin and her mother stayed at the hotel.

  22. I stayed an hour and a half, and came away no wiser than before.

  23. In 1686, probably because he was concerned in the Monmouth rising, he visited New England, where he stayed eight months selling books and observing with interest the new country and its inhabitants.

  24. You might as well have stayed with me, as I asked you.

  25. So off I toddled, and I stayed at home for six months.

  26. Tell Margaret that I did leave Stowmarket by the train I named, that I stayed in the Hotel Victoria the same night, and left for the Riviera at 11 a.

  27. At Milan you stayed at the Palace, and Robert Colby at the Cavour.

  28. But perhaps finding the Palace noisy, and trusting in Mr. Robert Colby’s better judgment, at Venice you both stayed at the Danielli.

  29. Upon the whole, however, I incline to the opinion that generally at least Martha stayed at home visiting with lady friends, attending to domestic concerns and superintending the preparation of delectable dishes for the hungry hunters.

  30. The paddock fence was neglected and ultimately the deer ran half wild over the estate, but in general stayed in the wooded region surrounding the Mansion House.

  31. They invariably stayed to dinner and most generally for the night; very often for days or weeks at a time.

  32. Some of the servants were sold and others ran away, but Simpson stayed on in charge, though without making any financial settlement with his patron till 1784.

  33. Magnus avows that he was the ninth, who stayed when eight rode away.

  34. Seven years Horn stayed with King Thurston, and to Rymenhild neither sent nor went.

  35. She stayed there the night, and was taken back to her mother in the morning.

  36. He stayed four months in Jerusalem, and began the church of St Mary.

  37. He stayed in Tintagel town and lodged with Gorvenal in a burgess’ house, and languished oh!

  38. The dark shade of the great trees wrapt them round, and as the King followed the spy he felt his sword, and trusted it for the great blows it had struck of old; and surely had Tristan wakened, one of the two had stayed there dead.

  39. He was to have three hundred pounds for the year of Copperhead's residence with him, if he stayed so long, and that would do, if nothing else.

  40. She had been enjoying herself while the others stayed at home.

  41. We really must go; we have stayed longer than we meant to stay.

  42. He had stayed the whole afternoon in Schomberg's hotel, mainly for the purpose of finding out something about her.

  43. Davidson stayed on, and even joined the table d'hote dinner, without gleaning any more information.

  44. It appears that he stayed with a Dutch government doctor in Amboyna, a friend of his who looked after him for a bit in his bungalow.

  45. So we stayed up that creek something like ten days, as snug as can be.

  46. We stayed however where we were, and suffered in consequence.

  47. They have their country-places next door at Saucelito, and I stayed with them time about, the last time I was on the coast.

  48. Never at any time in peace have sailors stayed so short a time ashore or shown such a readiness to step again into a ship.

  49. The talking of the ice grew louder and louder round them, but the mound stayed fast, and, as the girl looked at him, he threw his right elbow upward and outward, making the Inuit sign for land in the shape of an island.

  50. Among those who have stayed with him at the Villa des Fleurs was the Russian Colonel Miassoyedeff, who was recently hanged as a spy of Germany.

  51. As one plays the eighth hole alongside the railway by Monkton Station, one cannot repress the feeling that one might as well have stayed inland.

  52. Here he stayed fourteen years before returning once and for all to his beloved St. Andrews, and it was here that the immortal Young Tom was born and first swung a precocious club.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    borne; held; sustained


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    stayed right; stayed till