stayer
IPA: stˈeɪɝ
noun
- One who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop.
- One who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains.
- (sports, informal) An athlete, horse, etc. with staying power.
- A surname.
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Examples of "stayer" in Sentences
- Stayer studied the sugar industry in California.
- After that well, he hasn't won any laurels as a stayer.
- One that allus is a "stayer" when you want to slam him through,
- Although many believe Ardross to be the best stayer of modern times.
- So when I say I'm a stayer-put-her I don't mean I'm a stayer-at-homer.
- She was the dam of Westerner, the 2004 and 2005 European Champion Stayer.
- In passing ... congrats to the superstar stayer Shocking, who won the Melbourne Cup today.
- If Haye can win his next three fights then maybe Britain will have another "stayer" on its hands.
- The horse YOU want is not a pretty, dainty flyer, but a stayer, that is sure and that brings in good money, not big odds, but good money.
- The horse you want is not a pretty, dainty flyer, but a stayer, that is sure and that brings in good money, not big odds, but good money.
- Romulus now prayed to Jupiter, and vowed to erect to him a temple as Jupiter Stator, -- that is, the "stayer," -- if he would stay the Romans in their flight.
- Roth, who made his debut in 1959 with a brilliant novella, Goodbye, Columbus, and hit the international headlines with Portnoy's Complaint in 1969, is nothing if not a stayer.
- Many eyed Fred hopefully; for the word had gone around that upon him Riverport must depend to wrest victory from the grasp of that tall runner, Boggs, who was said to be a tremendous "stayer," and as speedy almost as Colon himself.
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