become stale

Example Sentences

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Adrian Newey tells BBC Sport's Joe Wilson "it is easy to become stale", but his "passion has always been for trying to find ways to make the car go faster" after joining Aston Martin.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

They have a charming ensemble of precocious youths and disregarded veterans combining to transform a franchise that had become stale.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2022

"How do you update models that become stale as the world changes around it?"

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2022

The team is in last place in the standings, though, on one point from four games so incomings are needed to freshen up a group that might have become stale under manager Brendan Rodgers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2022

Thoroughbreds run because they love to, but when overraced they can become stale and uninterested, especially when repeatedly trounced and bullied by their riders, as Seabiscuit was.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand