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stay put

VERB
  1. stay put (in a certain place)
    Stick around and you will learn something!
    We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati
    Stay put in the corner here!

How To Use stay put In A Sentence

  • Also outstanding are the eye shadows, in an array of flattering colours that really stay put. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once their stateroom is fixed up to their liking they stay put, save theirselves the bother of getting pestered by nobodies. MR STARLIGHT
  • To avoid being knocked off and carried out to open water, the anemone secrets a very strong adhesive substance at the foot of its stalk that allows it to stay put in the most turbulent situations.
  • The scant supply of mortgages will make many people minded to stay put. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, he's still there - and, no matter what this serial blunderer does, he will stay put as long as the people are not given a choice in the matter.
  • Most projected underground storage formations remain uncharacterized - nobody knows what's really down there -- so no one is quite sure whether the CO2 will stay put. David Sassoon: Are Environmentalists and the Fossil Fuel Industry Calling a Truce?
  • It they stay put, the Saints will eye a wide receiver or defensive end because the draft is thin for defensive backs, the team's primary need.
  • Versace officials did not immediately answer requests for details on how such sheer, long-sleeved dresses stay put.
  • Sometimes we hear the beeping and get up, sometimes we hear it and stay put for ten minutes. The Sun
  • The policeman ordered him to stand up and stay put.
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