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Meanings of stale in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dusty"
Examples for "dusty"
1
Detailed data on tobacco use among workers in dusty industries are lacking.
2
Names in dusty files but no longer represented in the power group.
3
He groped on the dusty floor; the veins in his forehead hammered.
4
The rooster was wallowing luxuriously in a dusty spot in the corral.
5
We are in the road, between the dusty quicks of the hedgerows.
1
Teolin sat down wrapped in his moth-eaten bearskin and set to work.
2
Sean stepped up to the window and pulled the moth-eaten curtains back.
3
I picked you up because of your moth-eaten morals, I dare say.
4
Everything I came up with was too moth-eaten for even me to believe.
5
A gold locket, shaped like a hardcover book, hung outside her moth-eaten turtleneck.
Usage of stale in English
1
It was stale news; new personalities and events were commanding their interest.
2
But the American press saw the Obamas' Irish experience as rather stale.
3
The beauty of the notes was eternal; no use could stale it.
4
The smell of stale cigars and cocoa matting was in the air.
5
Where France look stale and disjointed, England were fresh and relentlessly committed.
6
It was stale in the corridors of power: no life, no help.
7
Yes, and the air is usually stale even in the late spring.
8
Is this about to happen in the stale wasteland of Irish politics?
9
No stale salad; no chance of mixing one flavour with the other.
10
It reminded Ral of a spice, pepper perhaps, or cloves gone stale.
11
The smell of spilt beer mingled with the smell of stale tobacco.
12
The iron was deeply rusted and the place itself smelled abominably stale.
13
In fact, the stalemate in the negotiations has become even more stale.
14
Lawsky believed the federal investigation, which dates to 2010, was growing stale.
15
To prepare the bread, soak stale bread in warm water until soft.
16
Mubarak's overthrow and the election of Mursi has transformed Egypt's stale politics.
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Stale through the time
Stale across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common