overstay
verb (used with object)
to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay.
was overstaying
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past progressiveof overstay.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He scolded an agent for taking no action after learning Danchenko, a Russian citizen who had been investigated by the FBI in 2009 for possible espionage, was overstaying a visa.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022
"He said he fled because he was scared of the police because he was overstaying," Lt Col Piyapong said.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2018
Speculation that Mr. Assange was overstaying his welcome grew when the embassy cut off his access to the internet in October, shortly before elections in the United States.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2017
Ecuador’s decision was the first sign that the government in Quito was beginning to wonder if its guest in London was overstaying his welcome.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2016
The guest of honor, General J. E. B. Stuart, felt that he was overstaying his welcome—not at the Ratcliffe home, where everybody was soundly Confederate, but in Fairfax County, then occupied by the Union Army.
From Rebel Raider by Piper, H. Beam
