How To Use Stale In A Sentence

Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
There was a powerful smell of stale beer.
Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
Bringing what little money he had saved after sending Serafina her giros postales, he would burst into the familiar cantinas on Santa Fe Street and buy beer for his old acquaintances. Centennial
With heavy rain now falling, the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate.

The story of their trip to see the giant had become stale. Times, Sunday Times
They were civilized people who knew when society gets stale. Times, Sunday Times
This then simmers for half an hour before being baked for an hour in a pan layered with very stale bread, Gruyere cheese, and the onion soup mixture.
No wonder her work is cutting through the stale, stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding.
How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
You catch the dry talcum smell of old ladies, which can't quite disguise the reek of stale sweat.
In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche. Blending Fact With Fiction
Fat, perspiring men and women were furiously fanning paper plates in a doomed effort to circulate the stale air.
Miguel stepped out and slammed the door, leaving Cristalena sitting inside like a porcelain doll.
Breakfast is always the same: instant oatmeal, coffee, and stale biscuits.
The freezing and thawing action on clay, silty clay, and silty clay loam soils tilled in the fall or winter to produce stale seedbeds usually have excellent seedbeds for early no-till spring planting.
The cultural patterns themselves are influenced by the structural instability and the cultural stalemate.
I think staleness is a consequence of the writer’s boredom with what he/she is writing. Sandra Brown is Interviewed by Jonathan Maberry
The only issue I've encountered is that the bread stales fast, and I'm never able to eat the whole loaf quickly enough (unless I am being particularly gluttonous). Is That Legal?: March 2008 Archives
With 200 people in one airless room it's getting hot and stale and manky.
The Council for Industrial and Commercial Development yesterday held a forum to urge the government to move away from the current stalemate.
Crusts of stale bread which would otherwise have been thrown out were left on the bridges, to be seized quickly by the diving birds.
The room smelt of dust and the stale air was strangely warm. Times, Sunday Times
Busted heralded a sea change over the past two years by bringing the staccato guitars and bratty vim of American punk-pop groups into the stale world of boy bands.
You don't want to use the word stale but you look for some kind of spark, Laich said. Capitals shift momentum and score three unanswered goals to defeat Islanders 3-2
But the French like nothing better than endless discussions and over-intellectualizing, so Allen's cinematic navel-gazing never lost its luster here -- even as his films became stale and a chunk of his American audience drifted away. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris
Additionally, the stalemate over economic union makes it difficult to assess the costs of insurance or mortgages arranged abroad.
The Panada is essentially bread soup. It is the perfect way to use stale bread - we never throw it away.
A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_ Jean-Christophe, Volume I
I sank into it and smelt the stale air wafting up from the sheet. The Sun
Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
In most of them, however, there have been periods of stalemate and vacillation followed by periods when the party in power rode roughshod over the protests of many minorities, disregarding the fact that such action was not legitimatized by traditional morality. Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power
He felt his stale melancholia leave him, his head become clearer, his nerves tauten. Autumn
Between [Tilda] Swinton's wounded, watchful eyes and [Amber] Tamblyn's soft internality emerges something that transcends the inherently stale nature of their transactions. GreenCine Daily: Stephanie Daley.
And, save for hard, stale cookies and bars in health food stores, carob was scarce outside my own kitchen.
They're efficient bursts of less-is-more rock that ride riffs hard then cut out right before they stale.
So don't tell me that this game will eventually come to a stalemate like chess, where the player turns over his king and quits.
MIT Press The bombing for the sake of "frightfulness" (an imitation of the Germans) and the insolent demand for unconditional surrender, and the blind policy with Russia were all blunders as well as wrongs, and have produced a stale-mate where materially there was a clear victory. 'The Letters of George Santayana'
As baguettes stale quickly, several batches are made daily.
One linguist notes that the essence of an eggcorn is that it takes a stale metaphor or trite cliche and breathes fresh life into it. Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
The two sides are stalemated over issues such as salaries and health insurance for both retirees and current teachers.
I worked to identify it - the smell of stale ash, the blowback of an aged coal burner, cinders falling from the sky, the aftermath of some inflamed astonishment - or not.
The abbe, who concluded, from these symptoms of disgust, that the leveret was not sufficiently stale, began to exhibit marks of discontent, and desired that it might be brought to the other end of the table for his examination. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
A panel of trained professional tasters also found electroheated milk to be sweeter, with less bitter, oxidized and stale flavors than UHT processed milk.
The bread/biscuits/cake had gone stale.
Nobody liked Dr. McKinney either: there was a smell of iodoform about him and of stale horse piss. Archive 2007-04-01
The simplest assessment is that it means no changes in the status quo: the round is stalemated for now, though there will be attempts, however faint, to revive it in Geneva in the months to come.
I'm a little embarrassed to say that I simply can't remember the environment variable that I need to set in order to remove what I call "stale" network adapters in Device Manager. Site Home
From a humanitarian perspective, Western involvement has stalemated the struggle as Libya barrels down the path towards protracted civil war. Michael Hughes: US on Wrong Side of History in Arab Spring
He had spent a restless night on a hard cot, with nothing but stale bread and ale to wake him up in the morning.
The yarn would usually be mordanted with oxalic acid from wood sorrel, iron, or even an alkaline solution made from stale urine.
During the presidential campaign, we know that Barack Obama promised to move away from what he called the stale and divisive politics of the past. CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009
Indoor gardens can transform a stale room into a vibrant living space.
The Barber invariably suffers from stale routine in repertoire performance. Times, Sunday Times
In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space. The Three Black Pennys A Novel
The difficulties lie more in a plot that drags and characterizations that are rather stale.
Yet it's stale and flimsy, its tame, outdated sitcom style as obsolete as a minidisc. Times, Sunday Times
This transfers heat from the stale air leaving the building to the fresh air coming in. Times, Sunday Times
Even with an hour's ride yet he had detected the stale smell of blood and vermin infested rot.
So few people can realise the terrible effect which "staleness" has upon certain minds. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
The sweat of our bodies mingled with spilt Red Stripe and stale poppers, as I realised I was in the greatest place ever in the history of mankind.
Billy was in a hungover stupor from Friday night, and he must have slept in his clothes because they smelled of stale beer and I saw talcum powder from the poolroom on his sleeves. The Convict and Other Stories
It was the smell, the smell of his own dug-out, a vile odour of putrefaction, of rotting bodies, of blood, of stale human sweat. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
If you are already singing but feel a bit stale, set the bar higher and stretch yourself in a new group. Times, Sunday Times
After three years of political stalemate, the governing party and the opposition - a hodgepodge of small political parties, business leaders and student groups - are finally sitting down at the negotiating table.
She scraped her flat shoes across the ground to dislodge any stale mud and walked to the centre of the alley.
The morning after the party, their apartment smelled of stale cigarette smoke.
Open-mouthed and stale-breathed, they greet the day with a groan.
The 49ers were reportedly prepared to swoop up Ole Miss tackle Michael Oher with the No. 10 overall pick, giving them a long-term bookend for 2008 first-rounder Joe Staley. SFGate: Top News Stories
Takze v sucasnosti ak si chcete zaspominat na 90-te roky v leteckom priemysle, tak by ste mali letiet jednou z Azijskych aeroliniek, kde je este stale prevaha letusiek nad letusiakmi. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Detecting a certain ennui sweeping across Belfast's healthy but slightly stale, generic dance music-dominated gay scene just over a year ago, Niamh Rowan, Mairead Hughes and Stephen Dorothy launched Eclektric, offering a fusion of left-of-centre electronica, indie and pop with an equally quirky dose of live-mixed visuals. Clubs picks of the week
Waste heat recovered from stale indoor air can heat water in domestic hot water tanks.
A stale odour of inevitability seeps from the disputes about wage differentials at Manchester City. Times, Sunday Times
Although I loved it instantly at the time, it soon felt like one piece of tacky, rainbow-flagged campery too many, its initial appeal wearing off like stale poppers.
The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilizing. Essays
The general election produced a stalemate, with opposition and pro-government parties each ending up with 25 seats in the 50-seat parliament.
Training programs get stale and boring after about a month of consistent workouts.
For more than a century, since Francis Galton first started speculating about the similarities of twins, nature-nurture was a war with a stalemated front and intelligence was its Verdun—the most hotly contested and costly battle. A Truce in the War Over Smarts and Genes
When zinc and sulphur are hested together in close vessels the sulphur rises in vapour without t ing to the zinc; but it is staled by Mr.E. Davy, that in some ex - perimenls made in the laboratoiy of the Royal Institution, in which sulphur in vapour was passed over melted zinc, they united, and formed a white crystalline substance, analogous to the substauce found in nature, and called phosphorescent blende. Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1
We sometimes trap ourselves in stale old tales. Times, Sunday Times
President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit.
Even if you toast stale bread in an attempt to disguise the staleness, it's still stale.
Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
He had as well ordered Blair's chambermaids to dress her after she had completed bathing, so that she could have some sustenance other than stale bread and other hard tack eaten on days of leave, but she had yet to emerge into the dining hall.
The pub smelled of stale beer.
To listener Glenn Gargas, the report was as stale as moldy bread.
The walls were a sort of stale French vanilla color, a few cracks running down the center of some parts.
Now officials have warned that if negotiations reach stalemate today they will resort to legal action.
The French eventually tried to break the stalemate by dangling a lure in front of Gen. Giap.
Instead, we have had the depressing experience of hearing councils parroting some rather stale agendas.
Military stalemate in the Mid-Atlantic region in 1778 encouraged British commanders to reconsider again their strategic policy.
Workers and management at a Great Harwood engineering depot have reached stalemate over pay claims.
Breakfast - a hunk of stale bread, a cup of sweet, sticky tea and a bowl of watery soup - was pushed through the bars of his cell, but he could eat nothing.
But these efforts are wasted if the copy is stale or lacks a congruous theme.
Canada Reads chooses a (yawn) winner … (the yawn is for Canada Reads, which is getting a little stale, no? News sluice
Worst case: Lee polarizes the audience more than anyone left (except maybe Michael), and his balancing act could fall on the negative side with a stale song (possible, given this week's hoary movie-music theme) or a performance so lackluster that even the judges can hear it for what it is. Idol Meter final four: Which singer can out-sparkle Crystal?
I never got into the new stuff, the GF was a Storyteller in the Cam, and had bought me a membership to try and get me to try the LARP of the new world. while the settings commingle better they feel stale to me, and I never could get into them White Wolf – Dead Yet? « Geek Related
All he'd had today was a dried-up ham sandwich, a stale vending-machine Milky Way, and what passed in the squad room for coffee. DOLL'S EYES
The air was stale and the dusty atmosphere was enough to make all of them hesitant to breathe.
-- As budding radicals, it does seem as though Eva and Franco Mattes wanted to give the finger to the art world and art history, with its hero worship, its veneration of dead objects, its stale preciosities. Couple stole more than other artists' ideas
With the two teams still locked in a goalless stalemate at the end of extra-time, the game was decided by a penalty shoot-out.
Originally, Kye was way more hotter in my mind, but when I wrote him, he turned into a worry-wart with a stale personality.
But how does Google defines it against the "staleness" of the content? Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
French bread goes stale very quickly.
Don't pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure. Anthony Liccione
The CTR is also monitored for fresh or stale content – in other words, are they visiting new content on your site or old posts or articles? Secret Out – How Google Ranks Websites « Lorelle on WordPress
The freshness and fragrance of literature gave way to a stale effusion.
Child - rearing values - sacrifice, stability, dependability, maturity - seem stale and ought toy by comparison.
The air was stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovered over the bed.
Setting the platter down as the table centerpiece, the cook returned to the kitchen to bring out stale bread and cheap wine.
On the European lignivorous insects, see Siemoni, Manuale d'Arte Forestale, 2d edizione, pp. 369-379. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
The morning after the party, their apartment smelled of stale cigarette smoke.
Once reconquest had been ruled out, plans for ending the stalemate were not always without humour, however. Times, Sunday Times
The creaky sound of the blocks rubbing together and the icy, stale air that surrounded the seaside still remain a vague childhood memory in my head.
Darren Schofield was the player to break the stalemate eight minutes from the end.
The years passed, and his repulsive, uneaten cupcakes quietly sat on the shelves of his work room and grew stale. Sentimental Frosting
Yet most are uniform not only in their puerility of perspective but in their stale language and ideas (not to mention the distance they keep from any hint of meter or rhyme).
With the two teams still locked in a goalless stalemate at the end of extra-time, the game was decided by a penalty shoot-out.
We finally make it to the park, loaves of stale bread spilling out of the plastic bags ready to nourish the ducks.
Gruyere is mixed with breadcrumbs made from stale or ovendried bread. Times, Sunday Times
Their daily diet consisted of a lump of stale bread, a bowl of rice and stale water.
Others found stale bread or mouldy tomatoes, or items a bit too near their ‘best before’ dates.
Return to these pages for a shot of inspiration or direction. exciting as stale toast.
Gigot: So that kind of a stalemate, if the opposition takes--retakes half of the country, say, and some of the oil assets, and Gadhafi sits in Tripoli and maybe some other parts of the country--that outcome for you is unsatisfactory and would be seen by the world as a defeat for the United States? To the Shores of Tripoli
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A stale odour of inevitability seeps from the disputes about wage differentials at Manchester City. Times, Sunday Times
Down near the pond, the ducks were quacking at an old couple that was throwing pieces of stale bread at them.
They slept, and when they woke again in the strong bright sunlight, Cristalena pinched him.
The whole side of his body was stiff and sore but he could not turn over, his knees caught on the cocopan every time he tried and the air in his little cave was starting to taste stale, his head ached. When the Lion Feeds
I felt a stale coolness on my face and I shivered and stood back, then I went out of the cave. THE EXECUTION
He covered her with the moth-eaten blankets and the stale smell of the room clung to the walls and to her.
I thought of Dorothy Wordsworth who coined the phrase, ‘the rant and cant of the staled beggar’, as she complained of the mendicants she encountered in England's beautiful Lake District.
The air is stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovers over the bed.
Marisa Coulter : You conceive she is that child? She staleness be found.
The taste is of stale water with a texture somewhere between used chewing gum and window putty.
Staley turned the game in the first half with a 23-yard touchdown reception.
Renowned for its deep-sea fishing, the Costalegre is becoming known as the sailfish capital of the world. SFGate: Top News Stories
I see oriental paper globes hanging like decomposing cocoons while exotic candles overload the dusty air with their stale perfume
Sometimes as a young player you get a bit stale when you are not getting the games. The Sun
When the pope spoke at Aida refugee camp nearby, he called the towering wall Israel built around Palestinian areas a symbol of "stalemate. Undefined
The smell of stale smoke hit him as he entered.
French bread goes stale very quickly.
A miasma of stale alcohol hung around him.
So was John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of Stale, when he flew to Egypt to conduct negotiations on the Aswan Dam.
The scent of rose water hung in the air, covering the stale smell of pipe tobacco and strong drink.
He wrapped a quilt around my shoulders, put a plate containing one and a half stale bannocks in front of me, and went to rootle in the cupboard after soap, washcloth, and linen towels. Drums of Autumn
However, with Chelsea counting down to the retention of the championship and with Portsmouth struggling to escape relegation, we had a first half of virtual stalemate.
The room smelled of stale sweat and coffee.
By contrast in the present case, the defendants are faced with a truly stale claim first made upon them five years after the event.
It's short, spunky, catchy, and, surprisingly for a lot of pop bands in this age, doesn't stale after repeated listens.
Dave, Geoff and myself had very severe hangovers and someone complained that the air in the cave smelt of stale beer fumes.
Things have gone stale since the turn of the year. Times, Sunday Times
After the stale fug in the tiny cabin, she gulped down the clean sea air, the car window wide open.
He smelled of stale faeces and tomato sauce.
He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them. The Sea-Hawk
The previous owners had two small dogs and treated this area as a dog run, so it was much flattened and stale when we moved in.
Riven by internal feuds, the Byzantine ways of association politics have led to a tortuous pattern of new beginnings, only to be followed by stalemate and acrimony.
Romain Lettuce (buy full heads or hearts, DO NOT used bagged lettuce, you'll regret it because it tastes stale.) Archive 2009-04-01
Their daily diet consisted of a lump of stale bread, a bowl of rice and stale water.
To American eyes he was indistinguishable from any other middle-aged peasant, and American efforts to catch him—such as orders to “arrest every fat Filipino of about forty years and hold until identification is proven”—were unsuccessful.7 Throughout 1900, Malvar and his partisans stalemated American efforts to pacify Batangas and impose colonial government. Between War and Peace
Too many players have grown old and stale under Pellegrini. Times, Sunday Times
I don't think I have ever had them go stale -- and they are, in calmer years, one of the first cookies I make during the holidays to sit out on our table in cookie tins since they last so well. Espresso Chocolate Chip Mandelbrot For The Troops
The 3-3 stalemate remained until half time despite several promising moves from both sides.
The programme has become stale and lacklustre. Times, Sunday Times
Children no older than you are had to work twelve hours a day for cruel masters, who flogged them with whips if they worked too slowly and fed them on nothing but stale breadcrusts and water.
The streets are littered with pollution and the smell of stale urine lingers in the air.
We sometimes trap ourselves in stale old tales. Times, Sunday Times
While his on-air persona should not grow stale, Mr. McMahon is not the character he used to be.
The makeweight argument worries about stale claims and evidence.
It's so stale in here, Mary, please open the window and air this place out.
Also, barley breads stale quickly, because they lack the water-retaining powers of the gluten network in wheat or the natural gums in rye.
We would dodder around for hours, drink stale $9 beer, lose $50 worth of balls, and then sit in tunnel traffic for another sixty minutes. To Love Golf, Just Play Once a Year
No, no, the dear heaven knows, and the farther the from it, if the whole stole stale mis betold, whoever the gulpable, and whatever the pulpous was, the twooned togethered, and giving the mhost phassionable wheathers, they were doing a lally a lolly a dither Finnegans Wake
But it is also important in its relation to work, for without it body and mind become "fagged," people grow "stale" at their work, producing power and power of service are reduced. Community Civics and Rural Life
Their daily diet consisted of a lump of stale bread, a bowl of rice and stale water.
The quickest way to the goal, depriving the stalemated opponent even of king moves. Times, Sunday Times
Contract talks between Saints and their Great Britain full back star Paul Wellens reached stalemate at a meeting held at Knowsley Road.
Shabby, grubby and stale, even visiting friends from other shared houses would wonder out loud how we could tolerate living there.
You know your shtick is as stale and inept as Bush when he left office patsy! Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
In the euphoria that surrounds the so-called mainstream, unemployment is stale news.
The _namu_ when stale causes the Marquesans to revert to wickedest savagery, and has incited many murders. White Shadows in the South Seas
IS THERE a limit to the number of film adaptations that can be made of classic literature before it becomes too stale?
Their daily diet consisted of a lump of stale bread, a bowl of rice and stale water.
The relationship went a bit stale and so it was finished. Times, Sunday Times
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it's toasted--or stale.
Reading these poems I kept thinking of Ionesco in Paris, Nabokov in New England, even Beckett, split between English and French but doing anything to avoid the stale colloquialisms of an ingrown Irishness.
That strike ended with negotiations, which stalemated a week ago.
As I said at the outset of this judgment, the whole purpose of the Limitation Act is to ensure that claims are litigated promptly and that stale claims should be discouraged.
The phony glamour of night clubs soon became stale and boring.
A foul smell of stale beer permeated the whole building.
My body heat rose to my face in the cool, stale bus air.
It was beginning to smell like stale beer. Times, Sunday Times
GM spent billions of dollars and effort to re-create Cadillac, their markee brand that they let slip into disrepair - as an auto naker how do you ever allow your key brand to get stale? Ace of Spades HQ
Manufacturers hydrogenate soybean oil to reduce its content of unsaturated fatty acids, particularly linolenic acid, the primary culprit responsible for causing food to become stale or rancid.
It was the smell, the smell of his own dug-out, a vile odour of putrefaction, of rotting bodies, of blood, of stale human sweat. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Espresso, ground far finer, is stale in an hour, which is why any espresso bar will have a doser-grinder that grinds the coffee every few minutes located right beside the espresso machine. Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
The unusual characters 'simplicity makes their interactions fresh and endearing, not at all stale and clichéd like the "romcom" moniker might imply. UltimateDisney.com and DVDizzy.com
Although I am still warm and toasty within the confines of my sleeping bag, I am very aware of the fact that I will soon have to expose my partially naked body to the cold, stale air of the tent.
Exploratory discussions between management and the unions have ended in stalemate.
Pretty awesomely random, it's a mirror and stales arranged in such a way as to reate a city full of skyscrapers. UFies.org: July 2009 Archives

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