Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
outstay .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many of the journalists had spent the better part of Sunday waiting for Strauss-Kahn's arraignment and were clearly outstaying their welcome as far as some of the court police were concerned.
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The stories (quick, to the point, and never outstaying their welcome) make me think more about their storytelling techniques than most of the current releases I have flicked through.
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The stories (quick, to the point, and never outstaying their welcome) make me think more about their storytelling techniques than most of the current releases I have flicked through.
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The legacy is actually a bit mixed - Captain Cook, who was the first European to visit Hawaii, died there after outstaying his welcome.
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Perhaps you're in danger of outstaying your welcome, he said.
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I wondered if she worried about outstaying her welcome with me, but admitted to myself she wasn't thinking about me.
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Carver's smartest tactic was never outstaying his welcome.
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He had knocked around after that, showing up here and there to sponge off of old friends and outstaying his welcome.
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N, at the risk of outstaying my welcome/'over-posting', I'd like to clarify my last post: the model for state comprehensive education I referred to in my last post is one which has been proved to work _ it just hasn't been rolled out everywhere because of an anti-deluvian attachment of parts of the teaching profession to mixed ability teaching.
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He had knocked around after that, showing up here and there to sponge off of old friends and outstaying his welcome.
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