How to Use overstay in a Sentence

overstay

verb

• She was guilty of overstaying a student visa.
• Many overstayed their visas and failed to seek asylum on time.
  — Akilah Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Bah was charged with overstaying her visa, which came as a shock to her.
  — Liz Brody, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2017
• Then there are the shows that had overstayed their welcome, didn't quite click or never got off the ground.
  — OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
• Don't worry—your in-laws might overstay their welcome, but the Elf will not.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
• With a set-up this sweet, who wouldn’t be tempted to overstay their welcome?
  — Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 1 Sep. 2023
• The town gave the hotel until May 15 to clear the place of all occupants who had overstayed the 30-day limit.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• But the movie overstays its welcome and loses its drive, in a way that winds up hindering it in the end.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 11 May 2018
• Managers and others check in, but don’t overstay their time at the table.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• The full campaign will take you less than three hours which ensures that the game doesn’t overstay its welcome.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 4 May 2021
• Be sure not to overstay your welcome, and don't expect the host to entertain you at all times.
  — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
• Sajuti came to the United States in 1981 as a Fulbright scholar and overstayed his visa.
  — Mikaela Porter, Courant Community, 9 July 2018
• This could cause extreme weather events of all kinds to stall and overstay their welcome.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• These lists sometimes overstay their welcome, which appears to be the point.
  — Bécquer Seguín, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
• One of the best decisions Caple made was not to let any of these figures overstay their welcome.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 June 2023
• We’re reintroduced to the ways might is wielded in this episode in set pieces that don’t overstay their welcome.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 29 Dec. 2021
• The ticket for overstaying a parking meter in the downtown core will rise $4 to $94.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• These aren't the first messages to show that Prehn was preemptively planning to overstay his term on the board.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
• All of us have overstayed our welcome at some point, in a place, in a relationship.
  — The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
• At seven-and-a-half minutes, the longest track to emerge from the Wyoming sessions far overstays its welcome.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 25 June 2018
• Five leaders in the region have tried to overstay their welcome in recent years.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
• Most of the early-hour sets ran 10 minutes — the least of them had the advantage of not overstaying their welcome.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 2 July 2019
• And if they’re already overstayed, the site will provide instructions about what to do next.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 1 June 2017
• The usual pre-period bumps came out to play and overstayed their welcome for 48 hours.
  — Jaime Osnato, SELF, 6 June 2019
• The couple overstayed their visas and have been hiding out in Thailand since 2014, police said.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2019
• By the 1980s, the problem was clear — tens of thousands of Irish immigrants came to the United States as tourists or students and overstayed their visas.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
• Plus, the pacing moves briskly in a way that happily doesn’t overstay its welcome.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• At just over 120 minutes, though — a blink in Marvel time — this Ant-Man is still clever enough to be fun, and wise enough not overstay its welcome.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• Her family overstayed their time in the US until officers showed up at their home in 2008.
  — Erick Trevino, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2024
• After serving two years in prison, she was released on parole only to be taken into custody by ICE for overstaying her visa.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024