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
• At the end of the day, Quanita and Quentin just want Keith to stay behind bars.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• Gladys will stay behind the scenes for six more weeks until her arm heals.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Big John makes the only sane decision of his life and opts to stay behind.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
• 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
• But some stay behind, forming a line to speak to their guest lecturer.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 28 June 2023
• 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
• The rest of the staff, many of them multiyear clinic veterans, will stay behind.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• 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
• Vinnie will stay behind to tend to her bedridden father.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Torres said having both her father and her mother stay behind in Haiti hadn’t been easy.
  — Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• While Julia proceeds home, Skye chooses to stay behind.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 4 Aug. 2023
• Thirteen others opted to stay behind, or travel to Boston by car that day.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Alabama might not stay behind the Seminoles and Nittany Lions for long.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• But Scanlon never courted the spotlight, preferring to stay behind the scenes.
  — Stuart Sucherman, Variety, 11 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Tess decides to stay behind as a distraction for the infected while Joel and Ellie attempt to escape.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Although her family members decided to leave, Brookelyn chose to stay behind.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024