How to Use stay of execution in a Sentence

stay of execution

noun phrase

• Earlier in the day, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal for a stay of execution.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 3 May 2023
• But more damning, and more urgent, is that the club has been managed so poorly that this game, this win, may be nothing but a stay of execution.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• Nearby was the bronze statue of Scheherazade, the 9th-century queen who used her wit and her invention to win a stay of execution for one thousand and one nights.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Germany just pushed the European Union to give a stay of execution to new combustion engine cars in 2035.
  — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• An Alpine Brown bear Italian officials said killed a jogger near the man's home this month has been captured and is getting stay of execution.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• On Thursday, attorneys for the state of Florida filed a response opposing the stay of execution, court records show.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Motorsport will be using it in 2026, and European Union law is using it as a stay of execution for the combustion engine.
  — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• The justices Wednesday rejected his request for a stay of execution, although the case could come before them again in the final hours based on other legal challenges.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Johnson’s lethal injection was carried out after the US Supreme Court denied his request for a stay of execution, with the three liberal justices dissenting.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Idaho’s first execution in nearly 12 years will continue as scheduled later this month after the state’s highest court Friday denied a stay of execution for Thomas Creech and dismissed two of the longtime death row prisoner’s state appeals.
  — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 10 Feb. 2024
• Apparently, Hobbes has reportedly almost disappeared before but received a stay of execution.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024