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Example sentences for: stay

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If one has become accustomed to a particular manual, the temptation is to stay with it: it is like a comfortable old shoe; even when a new edition becomes available, the information appears in approximately the same place and in a familiar format.
However, Delta did not stay secret for long.
The Wall Street Journal "Legal Beat" column reports that for the first time ever the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the U.N.'s main legal arm, has intervened in a U.S. criminal case and ordered the U.S. to stay the execution of a Paraguayan citizen convicted of murder in Virginia.
Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days.
Example: Penn asks, "Do you think it would be better to stay within the existing [Social Security] system--for example, raise payroll taxes and cut benefits--or would it be better to move toward more structural changes to Social Security like letting people control portions of their own retirement savings?"