How to Use stay over in a Sentence

stay over

verb
  • Make sure the left knee points forward and stays over the toes the entire time.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Make sure the left knee points forward and stays over the toes the entire time.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 15 May 2026
  • The problem started with the roommate’s boyfriend, who stays over often.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The problem arose when the roommate invited his girlfriend to stay over for the first time.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Things took a turn when Gary recently went through a breakup and asked her to stay over for emotional support.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Feels-like temperatures continue to stay over the triple digits each day.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Researchers have also found that storms have slowed down, staying over areas for more extended periods, over the past few decades.
    — William B. Davis, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Larsen proposed in 2021 about 10 beds for a 24-stay and about 16 for a longer stay over days.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Is your extended family staying over for the holidays?
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
  • So there is an undercurrent of industry concern around whether consumers will keep spending as prices get even higher and mortgage rates stay over 6 percent.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This is the circular path 22,236 miles above the equator, where a satellite moves with Earth’s rotation and stays over the same spot.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Collisions with the table are avoided by using dynamic kinematic restrictions, so that the hand always stays over the table surface.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2016
  • The children and the grandchildren would gather in various combinations, and Bobby and Pam would have friends stay over for long weekends.
    — Mark Bradley For The Ajc, AJC.com, 9 May 2026
  • There's a five-night minimum stay over Christmas, and a three-night minimum stay between mid-January and the end of February.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The three women lived in an off-campus home on King Road with two female roommates who went unharmed, and Chapin stayed over for the night with Kernodle, his girlfriend.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 May 2026
  • Villafane said monsoonal moisture could return to the region around Tuesday, but any potential rain or thunderstorms are expected to stay over the mountains and deserts.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Having a professional check your fireplace annually can help ensure proper combustion, ventilation, and gasket seals—all of which can play a role in how clean the glass stays over time.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Stephen Kosslyn, a former Stanford professor and neuroscientist, stayed over.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Their friendship included times where Jordan-Brooks stayed over at Stanifer’s mother’s home and had lent him money before, prosecutors said.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Pop culture seems to have ingrained it in my head that wearing a man’s clothing (such as a letterman jacket in high school, or his favorite hoodie after staying over at his place) is a privilege reserved for romantic partners only.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
  • And sure enough, Hurricane Erin formed and then exploded into a Category 5 storm, albeit one that predominantly stayed over the ocean.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit icon has been giving her followers a look inside her Turks & Caicos stay over the past few days on Instagram.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • As Erpe-Mere could be an hour and half’s drive away from Bruges, Lammens would stay over at Swinnen’s house for a sleepover with his two sons on Fridays, then play in academy matches on Saturdays.
    — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Detroit Pistons One of the season’s biggest success stories will likely stay over the cap but below the tax because retaining either Jalen Duren or Jaden Ivey takes them out of the cap-space derby.
    — Danny Leroux, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Elsewhere, True has hosted sleepovers for her cousins before, inviting Dream, Stormi Webster, 8, and Chicago West, also 8, to stay over in 2024.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • Daytime highs in and around Chicago will be in the 90s with no cooling effect from the lake, and residents will experience little relief as heat indices remain in the 90s until well after sunset and overnight indices stay over 75 degrees.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • Another researcher in Boston affiliated with Harvard and MIT Media Lab, Moshe Hoffman, stayed over.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Where people can stay over multiple days like during Grammy Week, NBA All Star Week or something like that and immerse themselves in the music and the culture without even having to leave the facility.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The Mark Hotel’s ultra-luxe World Cup Extravaganza package includes a four-night penthouse stay over the final weekend, with a butler, on-call massage therapist, and private terrace cocktails and caviar, plus access to the final match via helicopter.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2026
  • How Epstein and Maxwell targeted students Epstein visited the school for brief stays over several summers between 1994 and 2000, according to testimony from Epstein's personal pilot found in DOJ documents.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026

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