stay up

verb

stayed up; staying up; stays up

: to continue to be awake past the time when one usually goes to bed

Don't stay up past your bedtime.

She stayed up to watch the late movie.

Examples of stay up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Its job is helping a buyer stay up to speed in a category that keeps moving faster than anyone tracking it part-time can follow, and buyers are listening. — Rob Green, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026

The move is designed to allow viewers on the East Coast to remain with the show for the top awards without having to stay up to midnight. — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2026

ApusNeo took off on October 16 from the Canarias Stratoport for HAPS & UAS at the Fuerteventura Technology Park in Spain and stayed up for 29 hours. — New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026

But as a young girl, their mother had stayed up in the booley for a few weeks each summer along with her mother, and her aunts, and all the other womenfolk in other booleys scattered over the mountains because the men couldn't leave the sea. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for stay up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup