stay up

verb

stayed up; staying up; stays up

: to continue to be awake past the time when one usually goes to bed

Don't stay up past your bedtime.

She stayed up to watch the late movie.

Examples of stay up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ship stayed up for another three hours, circling Earth multiple times (and deploying those Starlink satellites) before meeting its own watery end in the northern Pacific Ocean. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Sign up at the module box above or at this link to stay up to date. — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

For those on the Gulf Coast, Tate recommends staying up to date on hurricane forecasts, getting prepared with food and supplies in the case of a power outage and following any local evacuation orders. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Before going to bed, Joy leaves out a generous spread of midnight snacks packed full of chicken for the guests, who stay up late. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for stay up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup