stale

Example Sentences

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Granola that’s either stale — thin-sliced cardstock masquerading as crunch — or so aggressively hard it feels like a dare to your dental work.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

They aren’t just stale; to use Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy’s excellent new phrase, they’re as “dead as fried chicken.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Nor were they ever considering how the first fight went in 2015 – delivered five years too late and as stale as feared.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

New food items need to be genuinely craveable and high-quality, not stale or overly processed, said food-industry veteran David Ferreira.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

And so by the time I met Aziz, she was the old woman who offered stale candy and whose house smelled like sadness.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri