Sentence examples for stale words from inspiring English sources

Here are some fresh meanings for stale words: intuition (n)., "knowledge that your salary won't cover the cost of your children's education" (Gail Elsant).

"The codependent woman, the narcissistic man: stale words lifted from therapy that I nonetheless think about a lot these days," she writes in a passage in which she contemplates what drew her to Moore.

What Evans' numbers, if accurate, show is that the Gingerbread population is "stale" (Evans word; possible pun intended).

"There is not in this slender book one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought".

That is the base upon which they can present Johnson as an agent of change and Livingstone as a man who is, in Johnson's words, "stale and out of touch".

For example, the word "stale" may make you think of hard, mouldy bread.

My mother has a baby in a heavily mortgaged barn with no heat, no pre-natal care and a pantry full of nothing but stale Matzoh (in other words, your dream scenario, Sarah).

Put your visual imagination to work, thinking about the images words such as "weary", "stale" and "unprofitable" conjure up.

For the conceit of the novel is that we are made of words – our own, however stale and self-limiting ("I sometimes feel that you could reconstruct an entire marriage in 10 sentences"), and others', especially the legacy of literature.

The word hero has grown stale and faintly ridiculous; the profane, worn-out firemen of Engine 62 use it only sarcastically.

TBS: I was kind of keeping my eyes open, the Poco thing was getting a little bit stale for lack of a better word.