How to Use stay behind in a Sentence
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The men would stay behind and take care of the kids for several days.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
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At the end of the day, Quanita and Quentin just want Keith to stay behind bars.
—Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
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Gladys will stay behind the scenes for six more weeks until her arm heals.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2024
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So when the royals got the call this morning to travel to the queen, Kate had to stay behind for her kids.
—Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2022
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Big John makes the only sane decision of his life and opts to stay behind.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
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But the title wasn’t enough to take precedence over his talent, and his plans to stay behind the scenes quickly changed.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
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But some stay behind, forming a line to speak to their guest lecturer.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 28 June 2023
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Her husband’s three older children weren’t allowed to come with them and had to stay behind with their aunts in Rafah.
—Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
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The rest of the staff, many of them multiyear clinic veterans, will stay behind.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
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To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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Vinnie will stay behind to tend to her bedridden father.
—Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
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Torres said having both her father and her mother stay behind in Haiti hadn’t been easy.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
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And once the threat had been dealt with, U.S. military forces could go back over the horizon and not stay behind to meddle in local politics.
—John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2016
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They are asked to leave a trace of their stay behind in a work that the hotel will display online in its virtual museum.
—Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
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Most of the evacuees are women and children, as most men of fighting age have been ordered to stay behind to defend their country.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
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Dozens of interviews over the last two years show that the reasons civilians stay behind in war zones are complicated.
—Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
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While Julia proceeds home, Skye chooses to stay behind.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 4 Aug. 2023
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Thirteen others opted to stay behind, or travel to Boston by car that day.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
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Alabama might not stay behind the Seminoles and Nittany Lions for long.
—Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
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But Scanlon never courted the spotlight, preferring to stay behind the scenes.
—Stuart Sucherman, Variety, 11 May 2024
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The anonymous caller was Rio DiAngelo, a surviving member who left the group after three years and was to stay behind and tell the world about the group's story.
—Claire Weinraub, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2022
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This newest addition is geared toward families and teams, and all 390 rooms are pet-friendly, so no one needs to stay behind.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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Tess decides to stay behind as a distraction for the infected while Joel and Ellie attempt to escape.
—Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
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Winter will stay behind a little longer after the Games have concluded to spend more time with family and friends, but Hill will return home Monday.
—Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
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Inna, 57, who did not give her last name, chose to stay behind after her husband and her children were evacuated to care for her father, who is older and sick.
—Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
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Her parents hastily abandoned their roomy home to flee and move into this daughter’s cramped quarters, though grandmother Zorya chose to stay behind.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
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Most of the male painters, however, had to stay behind, with the Kyiv studio closing, then reopening in late 2022, a generator later being sent over to cope with blackouts.
—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
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Many people travel abroad to see family over the holidays, but those who stay behind enjoy the season's quiet nature.
—Kate Springer, CNN, 24 Dec. 2022
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Back in February, fathers, husbands and sons had to stay behind as their wives, mothers and daughters boarded trains with small children seeking safety outside the country.
—Renata Brito, Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
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Although her family members decided to leave, Brookelyn chose to stay behind.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
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