How to Use overstay in a Sentence

overstay

verb
  • She was guilty of overstaying a student visa.
  • Lame entered the United States April 30 and overstayed the terms of his visa.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • 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
  • Don't worry—your in-laws might overstay their welcome, but the Elf will not.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 27 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Pineda-Mogollon entered the U.S. in 2023 and overstayed his tourist visa.
    — Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sly wisely kept the record short – the childlike sections, which are charming in small doses, would have become grating if the record had overstayed its welcome.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 June 2025
  • Cuellar had allegedly overstayed his non-immigrant visa by more than four years.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 13 June 2025

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