VERB
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continue in a place, position, or situation
She continued as deputy mayor for another year
After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser
Stay with me, please
despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year
How To Use stay on In A Sentence
- He will stay on as nonexecutive chairman. Times, Sunday Times
- A detailed list of specific sounds is often compiled in pre-production but once filming starts it is important for the sound recordist (also known as the location mixer) to stay on their toes and capture any audio that may be required later.
- When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out.
- Phillip did well to stay on him because I thought he was going to go through the rails.
- So much so that when they asked her to stay on to do the Pat Kenny show later, the old stager led with the image of the burning cross himself. The Priest
- No apartments were available and most hotels permitted a guest to stay only 5 days.
- She advises that when he gets to Ithaca he should stay one night with the swineherd.
- He was one of three loyalists who went to Downing Street to plead with her to stay on.
- For eight white-knuckled seconds, he had to try to stay on that jolting, snorting, corkscrewing half-ton of steak on the hoof.
- You stay on the right side of the line between love and infatuation and build a strong relationship. The Sun