Sentence examples for in the stale from inspiring English sources

We stood facing each other, surrounded by commuters, in the stale air of the subway car.

That controversy belongs in the stale past, and, besides, was Corbyn not ahead of the game?

In the stale micro-climate around London N5 there's scant consolation in a top-four finish.

In the stale warmth of the oven, Miss Frye set about the task of bathing her baby girl.

At 36-years-old the former Panathinaikos star could have gone out quietly by finishing his career in the stale Greek Super League.

His cologne, applied with restraint, has a wholesome cedar scent, and his presence in the stale air of my office is a force of orderliness and industry.

And fresh is just how Mr. Wilson and ensemble perceive a play that, let's face it, is too much with us in the stalest ways.

Luckily, so expert is Firth's timing — like that of Emma Thompson, as Bridget's obstetrician — that laughs, often of the rueful variety, can be conjured in the stalest scenes.

But too many instructors, say reformers, still engage in the stalest form of pedagogy: nonstop lectures to hundreds of faceless students who sit and listen passively.

Most ended up as spitballs, mixed in with the stale popcorn hailing down from the balcony.

In dismissing the stale notions that slaveholder paternalism developed from the ancient habit of noblesse oblige or from the peculiar conditions of Southern slavery, Ford makes his most important contribution to our understanding of the development of Southern society.