Below you will find example sentences with "stayed away". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Stayed Away in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: stayed
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 19.9 words

Words in this phrase

stayed away

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • stayed can mean: simple past and past participle of stay Frequent word
  • away can mean: From a place, hence. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

as nurses stayed away 1× back that stayed away last year 1× becton stayed away from much 1× biden has stayed away and among 1× customers who stayed away from hollywood 1× day and stayed away until the 1× governing parties stayed away 1× has actively stayed away from controversies 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

alia noted that 1× an extraordinary session 1× as it turned 1× becton stayed away 1× businesses hope customers 1× critics turned up 1×

Common sentence endings:

away from controversies 1× away last year 1× day of election 1× for the franchise 1× from the dugout 1× have stayed away 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

last 4× turned 3× year 2× mostly 2× day 2× march 2× president 2× parties 2× yesterday 1× patients 1× parirenyatwa 1× harare 1×

Related phrases

walked away drove away further away stay away miles away ran away passed away feet away throw away far away

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

stay silent stay safe stay overnight stay home stay healthy stay calm

Just after it in the phrase index:

staying home steady flow steady stream steal anything steam deck steam engine

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

walked away drove away further away stay away miles away ran away

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "stayed away" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 19.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as as nurses stayed away, back that stayed away last year, last, turned and year stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with walked away, drove away and further away, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with stayed away

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Maybe he should have stayed away. (6 words)

If only he'd stayed away from Los Angeles, right? (10 words)

After this point, Hermes stayed away from May and Luke. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

But while other Democrats are to join UAW members at rallies and on the picket lines, Biden has stayed away, and among both union advocates and progressives over what looks like a White House effort to remain mostly neutral in negotiations. (41 words)

The leader of the far-left France Unbowed party, Jean-Luc Melenchon, stayed away from the march, saying last week on X that the march would be a meeting of "friends of unconditional support for the massacre" in Gaza. (39 words)

The broadcast stayed away from throwing out explicit cheating accusations but that didn’t stop Twitter from jumping to conclusions that Judge was looking for a signal from the dugout. (30 words)

Question examples

If only he'd stayed away from Los Angeles, right? (10 words)

Example sentences (20)

Yesterday, patients were turned away from both Parirenyatwa and Harare hospitals as nurses stayed away.

According to the reports, the employees stayed away from duties and refused to open the chamber till payment of their salaries.

Alia noted that this was the longest that she had stayed away from her daughter Raha, who was born in November 2022.

As it turned out, the rain stayed away until the ninth inning.

Becton stayed away from much of the spring program last year as he awaited the birth of his first child.

Businesses hope customers who stayed away from Hollywood's unruly homeless encampment return after the city began clearing it out on Tuesday.

But while other Democrats are to join UAW members at rallies and on the picket lines, Biden has stayed away, and among both union advocates and progressives over what looks like a White House effort to remain mostly neutral in negotiations.

Critics turned up their noses and moviegoers mostly stayed away, resulting in a $94M worldwide gross and what felt like the belated nail in the coffin for the franchise.

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He added: “Kate deliberately stayed away but she desperately wanted to be there with the Queen in her last moments.

He couldn’t have won because about 70 per cent of us stayed away from his project on the day of election.

If only he'd stayed away from Los Angeles, right?

I quit that day and stayed away until the release of the Blood Orange.

Maybe he should have stayed away.

The broadcast stayed away from throwing out explicit cheating accusations but that didn’t stop Twitter from jumping to conclusions that Judge was looking for a signal from the dugout.

The leader of the far-left France Unbowed party, Jean-Luc Melenchon, stayed away from the march, saying last week on X that the march would be a meeting of "friends of unconditional support for the massacre" in Gaza.

Those who know BJP MP Vinod Sonkar say that throughout his career he has actively stayed away from controversies.

To avoid confrontation, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua stayed away.

We have a lot of the girls back that stayed away last year.

After this point, Hermes stayed away from May and Luke.

An extraordinary session of parliament called by opposition parties lacked quorum as the governing parties stayed away.

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