stay behind

phrase

: 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

Wells' friends said Wells did not return to the mainland with them, choosing instead to stay behind to talk with a girl, a claim his family has disputed. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Ultimately, Charles is made to stay behind on the farm and tend to the land. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

That service can stay behind after the original app disappears. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Some of the friends from that day maintained that Wells had chosen to stay behind on the island after meeting a young woman and was separated from his group before dying. — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for stay behind

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