The phrase "sounds stale" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is no longer fresh or exciting, or something that has become dull or uninteresting. Example: "The speaker's presentation sounds stale as they have been repeating the same ideas for years."
Mr Jackson was a more plausible candidate two decades ago, but both men now sound stale.
The blues can sound stale and dated in the wrong hands, but that won't be a problem tonight.
Although many of the songs in her new show, "Maye-den Voyage," are numbers she has performed before, nothing sounded stale on Wednesday.
"We have to be quite careful when that happens, 'cos if it starts to sound stale we just have to leave it, come back later".
Hollywood has never been more open about actors' sexuality, but presenters kept making the kind of lame "you're so gay" cracks that sound stale even in high school locker rooms.
When the building stops, he says, the cycle by which construction fuels consumption, and vice versa, could be inverted: "the virtuous cycle becomes a vicious one".The trouble with warnings about an overheated Spanish economy is that they are starting to sound stale.
After Octavia Spencer won best supporting actress, Crystal made a joke about hugging black women in Beverly Hills that was both unpleasant and so old it would have sounded stale in 1939 when Hattie McDaniel won for that other piece of Southern apologia, Gone With the Wind.
It doesn't sound stale, or a bad thing at all".
But three of the four pieces in "New Works" (the first of two programs in Ailey II's two-week season at the Ailey Citigroup Theater) are set to recordings that sound like stale, formulaic imitations of material that all too often sounds synthetic anyway.
Paula Crossfield likens the two chefs to dinosaurs; their argument "sounds even staler than the day-old bread at Bouchon Bakery".
