outstay

Example Sentences

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But on the show, Ted has outstayed his welcome.

From Salon • May 12, 2023

It's a technique that arrived, peaked and outstayed its welcome in the space of about six months in 2015; and completely kills the momentum of this Gaga-indebted bop.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2020

But by early adolescence, in the mid-twenties, the Bauhaus had outstayed its welcome.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

My Dorothy Hamill hair, white Capezio dance shoes and red tuxedo jacket had long outstayed their welcome.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2018

A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien