Stay and To arrest

Stay

Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.

To arrest and stay are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To arrest" with "Stay", this terms are similar.

Nearby Words: stayed, staying

To arrest

Definitions of Stay not found.

Stay and to arrest are semantically related. You can use "Stay" instead a verb phrase "To arrest".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Film / Muppets Most Wanted Nadya goes to arrest Kermit after he leads the biggest prison breakout in Russian history, but she decides to let him stay free after seeing how devoted his friends were to him.
  • Comic Strip / Dick Tracy The villains are taken aback, as they had both hoped to get Tracy to arrest and/or kill the other one, and try to persuade him to stay.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far".
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