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How to use stale in a sentence

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The stale smell of the station hit him suddenly, but it was breathable air.
This cheese, served as a nibble, was stale, dry and tough enough to make one wonder if it was left over from some opening night ceremonial.
Setting the platter down as the table centerpiece, the cook returned to the kitchen to bring out stale bread and cheap wine.
Pieces of stale sponge cake, in fact, any stale cake may be used for cabinet puddings, for cream puddings, or for croquettes.
He had spent a restless night on a hard cot, with nothing but stale bread and ale to wake him up in the morning.
Crusts of stale bread which would otherwise have been thrown out were left on the bridges, to be seized quickly by the diving birds.
They don't mind, since without those leftovers they would either starve or be rummaging in garbage dumps for stale food scraps.
He returns carrying a faded sport coat that's a shade of light green resembling stale string beans.
And, save for hard, stale cookies and bars in health food stores, carob was scarce outside my own kitchen.
The Nolans live on all the different foods that Katie makes from stale bread.
And, even though he had a job, her son was sometimes forced to eat baked beans on stale bread because he could not afford to buy a fresh loaf.
We finally make it to the park, loaves of stale bread spilling out of the plastic bags ready to nourish the ducks.
Director, Eisner, deserves credit, too, for delivering a film that seems fresh and exciting, rather than stale and formulaic.
One blogger wrote how mad he was over the fact that the streaming video wasn't live, saying the clips were stale the moment they were up.
Training programs get stale and boring after about a month of consistent workouts.
Radley gave a small oof as they managed to get him against the stale hay mattress.
News cycles are much shorter and the film will appear stale if released six months later elsewhere.
The same approach over and over can become stale and boring for the students as well as their art teacher.
The difficulties lie more in a plot that drags and characterizations that are rather stale.
The bedroom itself was not too bad but the place was definitely a pub and not an inn and the downstairs smelt of stale beer and cigarette smoke.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He's too honest entirely to stale the value of a pin, let alone a carpetbag.
Behold him, beneath the mass of stale and putrid slime, a castoff, friendless and penniless vagabond.
Nothing inside but a few bits of rope and a stale smell of tobacco smoke and corn whiskey.
The air was heavy with the smell of stale grease paint, ointments, and sachet.
We started in a dust storm, the unpleasantness of which custom cannot stale.
That's how I got rid of all that stale candy you had in the boxes behind the showcase.
He looks like a man that had sitten up at cards all night, or a stale drunkard wakened in the midst of his sleep.
The simplest way of making a socle is to take a loaf of stale bread, remove the crust, and cut the crumb to the desired shape.
But now came a tide of other news, and almost all of it was stale stuff to him.
Particular care must be taken that the beer in which the isinglass is dissolved, be perfectly clear, and thoroughly stale.
His third visit left him clogged and thick-witted, as though he had been breathing stale air.
Without becoming stale or unpleasant, it grew cold, clear and refined, and somehow suggested austere and tomblike thoughts.
Of course, outside of Boston the paper cannot reach its subscribers in time to be anything but stale as a news agency.
They will prevent one's getting cold while in the water and keep one from going stale, a very easy matter in water polo.
Apologies, stale jokes, and sneers at the propertyless workers followed one another in close succession.
This change is usually a rancidity that is observed in all stale products of this class.
The air was noisome with dead tobacco smoke and the fumes of stale beer.
He's been begging the 'varsity fellows to get stale and be done with it.
Sounds of revelry and the odor of stale beer come out of it.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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