stay up

Examples of stayed

stayed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He stayed at his post for the next eleven hours, until they closed.
Most guests were elderly people, who usually stayed for treatment 1-3 weeks.
Non-psychotic disorders with onset at age 23 years or after predicted an approximately 3fold odds for having stayed at this basic level.
Three blimps stayed in formation while performing a raster scan.
There was a door, plus a panel at the side, which normally stayed fastened.
In part, this reflects a natural division of labour whereby older and married men stayed out of the firing line.
In the past, it was women who stayed at home to raise their children who were considered the norm.
The media have stayed away from it big time.
Furthermore, agents' ability to exit voluntarily social groups strongly signaled their credibility to existing group members where they stayed.
Females, by contrast, stayed away from the roost throughout the night, irrespective of the foraging distance they travelled.
But as it turned out, the audience rating stayed unusually high for a late-night program and exceeded even the producer's expectations.
Workers in the formal sector stayed at the same enterprise throughout their working lives.
Cases were more likely to have stayed away from home than controls, but contact with pets, farm animals and wildlife was similar.
The rival factions split and each formed their own battalion, which stayed apart until 1921.
Beetles stayed more frequently within flowering lucerne fields out to a radius of 300 and 600 m than in non-flowering lucerne or other habitats.
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