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Example sentences for "stay away"

  • So you thought you couldn't stay away, even if the train did break down?

  • After the cellar racket Randal had the sense to stay away at Monaro and work at our station there for months.

  • She wonders whether he will be there; nobody wants him, of course, if he likes to stay away—but still he might come; his father has a farm away to the westward.

  • But I durstn’t stay away an hour longer from my flock.

  • On the contrary," she said, "you have made it a point to stay away from me.

  • All I have to say is that you don't stay away with my approval.

  • So I looked in again; but it was wuss than before, I saw I'd done better to stay away.

  • You must come or stay away, as it suits you,' she said, in a tone of indifference.

  • A lame way to say that the day is not that time and to stay away is that intention is to repeat one question, to repeat that extension.

  • Not to ask the way when there is nothing else to say is the only way to stay away.

  • He who talked did not say what he said because he had been the one who had come to stay away.

  • Tail pieces and a doll, a covering that is blue and white, a cup and not a mixture in it, darkness and sympathy, this does not mean that some one has been afraid to stay away.

  • Should he go back or should he stay away?

  • I stay away in the endeavour to recover the lost ground, and I continually fail.

  • Gerald would in reality have preferred to stay away, almost as much as Estelle and possibly Doctor Tom would have preferred him to do so.

  • If Gerald were so foolish as to feel annoyed and wish to stay away, he would just have to feel annoyed and stay away until he felt different.

  • How would she feel, caught slinking back, after she had been requested loudly and roundly to stay away?

  • It is too much fun to stay away from it," he laughed.

  • Bradford suggested that I stay away for a while, but I have thought it over and I think I ought to be there.

  • You spoke like a man that had burnt himself at a fire, and was warning others to stay away from it.

  • The old man is an old blunderbuss, but he's too good a sport to stay away.

  • I must go now," she said; "I can't stay away long.

  • If I am right in thinking it would be pleasanter for you to stay away than to go there and see me, my course is clear.

  • I don't want to stay away, in case she does wake.

  • No," said Patty; "but they think it would be unkind for me to stay away.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stay away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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