stale
Example Sentences
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There are stale rolls on offer, and some truly foul-smelling salted fish.
From Literature
The message from Cracker Barrel management went down like a stale biscuit.
At the very least, there is every reason to ignore the stale serenade of the bank lobby that any regulation will only hurt the people we are trying to help.
From Los Angeles Times
“It looks very shortsighted to me,” said Mark Green as he fed scraps of stale bread to a group of swans gliding along Christchurch’s waterfront.
Product portfolios grew stale at many consumer-products companies because there wasn’t much money to invest, or markets in which to invest.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
