stay home

idiom

chiefly US
: to not go out for an activity
Let's stay home tonight.

Examples of stay home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Alvarez noted that the race, which only saw a 41% voter turnout, could have swung a different way if any of the roughly 262,000 voters that didn’t cast a ballot in the district had decided not to stay home on Election Day. Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024 David, 84, had a successful business that allowed Judi to stop teaching to stay home and raise their two children. Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024 But summer holidays—like Memorial Day Weekend, Juneteenth, Fourth of July, and Labor Day Weekend—are among the most expensive days of the year to fly, leading many would-be-tourists to just stay home. Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2024 Key Takeaways While living on one income so one parent can stay home comes with tradeoffs, stay-at-home parents can enjoy benefits that can't be measured in dollars. Mia Taylor, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024 Schools are closed and businesses are shuttered; Haitians mostly stay home. John Hudson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024 The state’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, has come under criticism for his response after declining to order unvaccinated children to stay home during the outbreak. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024 Before this year’s New Hampshire primary, thousands of voters got a robocall from a fake Joe Biden, telling them to stay home. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 Savings With sudden lockdowns forcing Americans to cancel plans and stay home, families were able to save an eye-popping 32 percent of their incomes in April 2020, an all-time high. Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024

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“Stay home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stay%20home. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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