How to Use stale in a Sentence

stale

adjective

• The cards shuffled, the chips clicked, and a faint scent of stale beer hung in the air.
  — Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Place a slice of stale bread in each bowl and pour the soup over it.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• The couch was low to the floor, and the living room smelled faintly of stale sage.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• That was only part of the reason for the stale offense.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2022
• And the stale romantic cliché-ness of it all is as close as the film comes to satire.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• The whole debate, if that’s the right word for it, has been stale and repetitive since the mid-1990s.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• Once opened, dry pet food can go stale, even if stored in the reservoir of a feeder.
  — Lindsay Pevny, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
• There, in a dark room bathed in black light, man-smelling, stale with sweat and cologne, a show was about to begin.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Don’t stay the same, don’t get stale, transform your awareness to find new heights.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Bread pudding is a great way to use up stale bread, but the bread can also be fresh.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
• The air was stale and rank, reeking of tobacco freely smoked, chewed, spat on the floor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Swap in new dressings or crumbly cheeses to save your side from getting stale.
  — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024
• There’s a fine line between stable and stale, and too many Big Ten programs are on the wrong side of it.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2022
• Isn’t that what fans wanted when the four-team CFP started to get stale with the same teams year after year?
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
• The city’s restaurants had, with a few exceptions, gone a bit stale by the time the pandemic hit.
  — Kate Maxwell, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• There are also stale subplots that are riffs on things the show has done before.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
• As a result, bread made with this wheat gets stale faster than the soft wheat varieties.
  — Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
• The script is confusing, the action stale and the visual effects cheap.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2024
• The air is stale on the 40th day of running around an unremarkable city block in Queens, New York City.
  — Ben Pryor, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2022
• The living area was dark, cavernous and had the stale, smoky, over-warm atmosphere of a casino.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• With a bit more effort and focus, your white paper can go from pale and stale to bringing in the green.
  — April Rudin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• And yet there is something underwhelming—stale, even—about the news.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023
• But on the football side, the league is starting to feel stale, especially out West.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2022
• Speakers may have a shelf life of only a handful of years before their book gets old and the topic seems stale.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• In this idyllic life, Leavitt, 66, doesn’t have to rummage for stale Hot Cheetos in her pantry.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Then, with your bread, stale or toasted, use a food processor to grind into a fine crumb.
  — Becca Miller, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2022
• Lindholm took the keys Monday because, in Montgomery’s view, the unit had gotten stale the last few games.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• When popular music grows stale, a jolt is inevitable, from the progressive rock of the ’70s to punk or grunge.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• An emotional water sign might find the air signs to be a bit cold, while earth signs will be too stale and stable for air signs.
  — Aryelle Siclait, Women's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
• Last season, it was reported that the play list at the stadium was a little stale.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024