stay up

Example Sentences

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There will be no last-day drama for Nottingham Forest, who have done pretty well to stay up when you consider they have had four different managers this season.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

“Even in the event that the conflict ends, fuel prices could still stay up and those airfares can stay up,” she says.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

He would slip in after dark, and we’d stay up late talking about his family in Iran, classical music and the particular pressure of being the son someone sacrificed everything to bring here.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Some artists were not happy because they stay up late, so they wanted us to do the Hyper Early Club.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

He would stay up until very late, suffocating in his faded velvet vest, scribbling with his tiny sparrow hands, whose rings had lost the glow of former times.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez