How to Use stagnate in a Sentence

stagnate

verb

• There are also folks of all ages that don’t want to stagnate.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• Earth got stuck in a crisis state where the land was burning and the oceans stagnating.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• Will the tech sector, which has been a growth engine, stagnate?
  — Martin Reeves, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• The gender gap in wages, which had stagnated in the eighties, was on its way up again.
  — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
• The middle class is stagnating while the rich get even richer.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• As the season winds-down, the seedlings will go dormant and stagnate in size, then resume growth in spring.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• Some will drift away from the sport; others will stagnate or get injured.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2022
• Some people will stagnate in their lives and expect the same of their friendships.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• Most notably, for the last 50 years, their wages have stagnated.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2020
• Rarely did its avid crowds feel too overwhelming, nor did the line stagnate.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• In contrast, iPhone 14 models have been tipped to stagnate, with Apple reusing the iPhone 13 chipset.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Across the country, wages have stagnated for decades, failing to keep up with the cost of living.
  — Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
• The novel fell off the Times list after a week, and sales mostly stagnated over the summer.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• And the Bulls offense continues to stagnate — failing to crack 110 points in five of their last six games.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• Why 2020 production could be worse If Johnson and Hines can’t take the next step, the growth of the linebacker group could stagnate.
  — Alex Miller, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Output has dropped or stagnated for the past three months, the worst performance in a decade.
  — Ian Mount, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
• In the nineteen-nineties, though, the industry began to stagnate.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• But by and large, people think that the country is stagnating.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• Fire storms also tend to stagnate, staying parked over the fires that create them.
  — National Geographic, 6 Jan. 2020
• Yet none of these factors will stagnate long-term global growth.
  — Shirley Yu, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• Switch sales have stagnated in recent months as the console ages.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 May 2023
• This is not the time to stagnate, as the energy of February will require you to take steps forward.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• Shares in the group have largely stagnated over the last seven years and the group ‘s market cap has declined by more than 4% in value over the last 12 months.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 15 Mar. 2024
• The shift came as revenue from the software business stagnated.
  — Olga Kharif, Fortune Crypto, 2 Aug. 2023
• Research shows that people who stay in their comfort zone at work stagnate and get bored.
  — Lisa D. Foster, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• If not, the country would stagnate even worse than the Soviet Union did in its terminal phase.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The German economy could stagnate or even shrink in the final three months of the year, the Bundesbank said on Monday.
  — Raymond Colitt, Bloomberg.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Alabama, which has yet to score a run past the fourth inning in the tournament, continued to see its bats stagnate in the sixth.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 27 May 2022
• At the same time, competition for jobs has increased, wages have stagnated—and then there was a global pandemic that put a nearly three-year pause on life added to the mix.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• It’s been hit with enormous recalls of its top-sellers, has seen profits plummet as sales stagnate and is even facing offers to offload some of its historic brands.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024