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stayer

[ UK /stˈe‍ɪɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈsteɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance
    the horse that won the race is a good stayer

How To Use stayer In A Sentence

  • Yet the vast majority of the unknown number of illegal migrants living in Britain are overstayers; that is people who entered Britain legally as visitors, to work, or as students, and failed to go home again.
  • A credit to his trainer Rod Millman, the stayer became the first to complete a Northumberland Plate-Ebor-Cesarewitch treble not even attempted since 1911.
  • Well weighted on that form and looks a strong stayer. The Sun
  • Many eyed Fred hopefully; for the word had gone around that upon him Riverport must depend to wrest victory from the grasp of that tall runner, Boggs, who was said to be a tremendous "stayer," and as speedy almost as Colon himself. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School
  • This former smart Flat stayer has done well since tackling this sort of distance. The Sun
  • The king of the said land of Iaua hath a most braue and sumptuous pallace, the most loftily built, that euer I saw any, and it hath most high greeses and stayers to ascend vp to the roomes therein contained, one stayre being of siluer, and another of gold, throughout the whole building. The Journal of Friar Odoric
  • He is a dour stayer and is unexposed over marathon distances. The Sun
  • He is a dour stayer so the step up to 4m should suit. The Sun
  • He is a dour stayer and is unexposed over marathon distances. The Sun
  • He looked like a real stayer that day and clocked a good time despite the testing conditions. The Sun
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