outstay

How To Use outstay In A Sentence

• It took them two seasons and it's outstayed its welcome, but they did it. Michael Giltz: DVDs: What's The Best Sitcom On Thursday Nights?
• Because I'm actually happy to see the return of players like the cowboy brothers, the Harlem Globetrotters, mother-son Margie and Luke, goth couple Kent and Vyxsen and best buds Zev and Justin, I'm more OK with this than I am the latest go-round for the overexposed "Boston Rob" and Russell the Rude on Survivor: Redemption Island, who really have outstayed their welcome. Roush Review: Being Human and More Weekend TV
• They had to come back from a nine part deficit at one stage but put in a blistering second half display to outstay and outplay the opposition, winning by six points eventually.
• He outstayed Vinnie Roe today and he is the ideal horse for the two miles of the Melbourne race.
• overstay or outstay one's welcome
• The free market system has at last come of age and the desirability and need for planned economies such as the welfare state have outworn their use and outstayed their welcome.
• from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome
• They outstayed their competitors
• They were busy so I left - I didn't want to outstay my welcome.
• Death Proof was released alongside Rodriguez's Planet Terror under the umbrella title Grindhouse, but when the double-bill flopped in the US, Death Proof was extended beyond its original 87 minutes and released alone in the rest of the world in a 114-minute edit which sorely outstayed its welcome. Sally Menke obituary