stay with

phrasal verb

stayed with; staying with; stays with

: to be remembered by and to continue to influence or affect (someone) in some way

The memory of that tragic day has stayed with her ever since.

: to continue using or doing (something)

Stay with the medication for a couple more days and see if the rash clears up.

I know the work is hard, but if you just stay with it for a while longer, it'll be done.

: to go or make progress at the same rate as (someone) : to keep even with (someone) in a race, competition, etc.

The other runners struggled to stay with the leader.

Examples of stay with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Davis switched onto Murray after a Nikola Jokic screen, the Lakers counting on their best defender to stay with a big-time clutch player. —

Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2024 Odette, staying with the French side of the family, only spoke French, Spanish slowly slipping to become her secondary language. —

Montserrat Andrée Carty, Longreads, 23 Apr. 2024 Peter Goldberg, who had led the department since 2017, will stay with the company as a partner and senior agent. —

Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024 Grant's father left him with his grandmother to start another family, and the way Grant felt abandoned by his parents left marks that stayed with him through his adult life. —

Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2024 Australia and New Zealand Stabbing Attack in Sydney Kills at Least Six People:Shoppers hid in backrooms or ran screaming from the scene, while others stayed with injured victims. —

Damien Cave, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024 At the time, he was imprisoned not far from Moscow, in Penal Colony No. 2, in the town of Pokrov, where regulations sometimes allowed the wives of inmates to come and stay with them for a couple of days. —

Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024 The combo forward, who will be an unrestricted free agent this summer, reiterated his preference is to stay with the Hornets. —

Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024 More Wisconsin college students are in teacher programs, but many don't stay with it Wisconsin actually saw an increase in students enrolling in educator preparation programs — outdoing other states and its own numbers in the last decade. —

Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024

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