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Staling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stale

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (2) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
  • (3) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
  • (4) In the first comments from Epstein’s representatives since the Guardian revealed on Friday that the prince had been named in a Florida court motion, an attorney for the disgraced financier said: “These are stale, rehashed allegations that lawyers are now attempting to repackage and spice up by adding the names of prominent people.” Virginia Roberts, who says she was 17 when she first met the Duke of York in London, claims she was forced to have sexual contact with him by Epstein, in London, New York and on his private island in the Caribbean during an “orgy”.
  • (5) Though the Bond series was in anything but trouble before Mendes’ arrival – and Craig’s – there was the sense of a certain amount of staleness towards the end of Pierce Brosnan’s run.
  • (6) The PassivHaus pioneers have focused on improving insulation, providing far better air-tightness and warming incoming air in winter, with the hotter stale air extracted from the house.
  • (7) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
  • (8) The abortifacient property seems to decrease as the fruit becomes stale or ripe.
  • (9) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
  • (10) He resolutely refused to sit on the fence, and staleness, caused by watching stream upon stream of bad movies as well as good ones, never set in.
  • (11) Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...” “What was he like as a person?” asked Dalgliesh.
  • (12) If you’re not bothered about instructions in another language, misprinted labels or biscuits that may be several months past their peak quality – but not stale – you can stock up for a fraction of the price you might pay in a regular shop.
  • (13) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
  • (14) Overhead lights attached to ripped-out electrical wires hang suspended in the stale air and fading wallpaper peels off the walls like dead skin.
  • (15) For every 10 party hacks there were one or two sublime dissidents or innovators – Polanski and Wajda in Poland, Jancsó in Hungary, Dušan Makavejev in Yugoslavia – and we shouldn't throw out all these beautiful babies with the stale red bath water.
  • (16) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
  • (17) Northern Irish businesses are now able to trade across Europe, more people from across Europe have settled here and have provided a fresh perspective from the stale old sectarian divisions that Northern Ireland has been cursed with.
  • (18) This is welcome, as we believe that we offer a real alternative to the politics of austerity and the stale dogma of the Westminster parties.
  • (19) Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare.
  • (20) He should leave behind stale orthodoxies and trust his instinct that change is essential.

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