outstayed

past tense of outstay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for outstayed
Verb
  • The Vara bow, a fixture of the house for nearly 50 years, sits at the center of its latest campaign — a quiet acknowledgment of a design that has outlasted trend cycles for nearly five decades.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Week 6’s Sunday action began with an unsightly offensive showing in London, where the Denver Broncos outlasted the New York Jets, 13-11.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the audience roared with applause, her words lingered—a call for women to trust their instincts, use their voices and believe that advocacy is not just healing for others, but for themselves.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The injury has lingered, leading to his missing Week 6.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Samuel Adams also outlived his.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Hart had a brilliant but too-short run; Godard outlived nearly all his contemporaries and became one of the world’s most important filmmakers.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While Damiano waited for David’s blood glucose to tick up or edge down, his engineering brain crunched the problem.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The couple waited until Vale’s arrival to choose her moniker.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Outstayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outstayed. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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