stay behind

idiom

: to not leave at the present time

You can go on ahead. I'll stay behind to help clean up.

Examples of stay behind in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Farming gave Tom a chiseled, muscular body and a resolve not to stay behind a plow. —David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025

Some suggestions seem easy and inexpensive to implement — encouraging law enforcement officers to issue a civil citation for non-violent misdemeanor offenses, an alternative to an arrest that requires a jail booking and often only a brief stay behind bars for the offender. —Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025

Those who stay behind will, by their inaction, mark themselves as unfit for the future. —Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025

The formulas are so light and gentle that there's no need to rinse them off, which means that the moisturizing ingredients can stay behind to be absorbed. —Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 June 2025

Rhymes for stay behind

• countersigned
• disinclined
• humankind
• interlined
• intertwined
• mastermind
• misaligned
• nonaligned
• predefined
• realigned
• reassigned
• recombined