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adjectivestalest, staler steɪlsteɪl 1(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry. Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes the dough is stale and impossible to roll out.
- Large pots, merciless heat and a few decrepit plastic chairs and buckets fill her small tent, while bits of stale food cover the floor.
- Classic summer pudding is made with stale bread but it is much better made with store bought pound cake or brioche.
- Never add food to a dish that has old food in it; throw the stale food out, wash the dish and replenish it with fresh food.
- I want you to individually hand-dunk each cube of stale bread into the garlic-infused olive oil.
- The next morning, our hopes were further smothered as our complimentary ‘breakfast’ consisted of a stale bun and a cup of milk.
- He had spent a restless night on a hard cot, with nothing but stale bread and ale to wake him up in the morning.
- ‘Very well,’ she said taking the bread back and slowly sinking her teeth into the stale crust.
- I felt a little embarrassed; my kitchen was full of stale food.
- Crusts of stale bread which would otherwise have been thrown out were left on the bridges, to be seized quickly by the diving birds.
- Shopping centres, cinemas, high streets, motorways, schools - it seems that no matter where you go, greasy food and stale buns are increasingly on the menu.
- They don't mind, since without those leftovers they would either starve or be rummaging in garbage dumps for stale food scraps.
- This then simmers for half an hour before being baked for an hour in a pan layered with very stale bread, Gruyere cheese, and the onion soup mixture.
- 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.
- Breakfast is always the same: instant oatmeal, coffee, and stale biscuits.
- Just cut off the crusts of some slightly stale bread, and whiz the bread in a food processor.
- Breakfast - a hunk of stale bread, a cup of sweet, sticky tea and a bowl of watery soup - was pushed through the bars of his cell, but he could eat nothing.
Synonyms dry, dried out, hard, hardened, old, past its best, past its sell-by date off, mouldy, rotten, decayed, unfresh, rancid, rank - 1.1 No longer new and interesting or exciting.
their marriage had gone stale Example sentencesExamples - Director, Eisner, deserves credit, too, for delivering a film that seems fresh and exciting, rather than stale and formulaic.
- The events of that day had given this stale slogan a vibrating urgency.
- Training programs get stale and boring after about a month of consistent workouts.
- Youthful energy can make stale old artistic endeavours exciting.
- 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.
- He quotes five passages of bad English, in all of which he finds two common qualities: stale imagery and lack of precision.
- Even though I'm hearing it for the first time, it seems like stale news.
- Seriously, TV news may have been stale in the old days, but it was also respected.
- Max is very unhappy with the stale, dull, boring, routine life and wife; he feels they've played it too safe and he needs a little danger in his life.
- They were energetic and played an interesting style of music, but I found it very boring and stale.
- I limp down the street to sweet black coffee where the morning news is old news by now and stale headlines trickle in the city with a heart of gold in a world at war in a laid-back state.
- Yes I know you thought this matter was stale news but not for those who understand the ramifications for our democracy.
- In the euphoria that surrounds the so-called mainstream, unemployment is stale news.
- You can enjoy this formula for a while - it does not really matter which bands you first became interested in, any will do - but it becomes stale.
- Indoor gardens can transform a stale room into a vibrant living space.
- Circus acts have grown so mundane, stale and outdated that animal acts are now the only way of attracting the publics' attention.
- As played by Jack Nicholson, he's a newly retired insurance actuary whose wife - in a stale, humdrum marriage - suddenly drops dead.
- Yet far from being stale, her character comes across with freshness and believability.
Synonyms hackneyed, tired, worn out, overworked, threadbare, warmed-up, banal, trite, stock, stereotyped, clichéd, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, platitudinous, unoriginal, derivative, unimaginative, uninspired, flat out of date, outdated, outmoded, passé, archaic, obsolete, defunct, antiquated North American warmed-over informal old hat, corny, out of the ark, played out, past their sell-by date, hacky - 1.2predicative (of a person) no longer able to perform well or creatively because of having done something for too long.
a top executive tends to get stale Example sentencesExamples - It didn't send its green reporters to war, nor did it leave its stale reporters at home.
- ‘I'd like to be able to pull back from the business before I get stale and grumpy,’ she said.
- Agreeing with the five years in office rule, he admits to feeling a trifle stale in the last few terms.
- I think you need that as a player, you do need new challenges, new people to learn from because you can go a bit stale.
- Originally, Kye was way more hotter in my mind, but when I wrote him, he turned into a worry-wart with a stale personality.
- For the past decade we've been getting 100 points per year but we thought that our team had become a little stale.
- ‘After three years as a mayor you tend to become a bit stale,’ Mr Windsor said.
- I won't defend him because I think he's stale and isn't half the wrestler he once was.
- While his on-air persona should not grow stale, Mr. McMahon is not the character he used to be.
- Even if you love what you're doing, it's almost inevitable that at some point you'll feel a little stale.
- Simply, Le Guen believes every coach has a shelf-life of three or four years at any one club before he grows stale and people turn against him.
- 1.3 (of a cheque or legal claim) invalid because out of date.
justifications for adverse possession go beyond stale claims Example sentencesExamples - Counsel for the 1986 Trustee submits that the claims are stale, speculative, defensible and likely to fail.
- For example, it is frequently said that the doctrine is an embodiment of the policy that defendants should be protected from stale claims and that claimants should not sleep on their rights.
- The makeweight argument worries about stale claims and evidence.
- The courts should not be clogged with stale cases and parties should know that.
- The committee was satisfied that sufficient remedies were available through the courts to protect traders from stale claims.
- The second defendants have had to deal with stale claims and have been handicapped by the absence of potentially relevant documents after the warehouse fire.
- As I said at the outset of this judgment, the whole purpose of the Limitation Act is to ensure that claims are litigated promptly and that stale claims should be discouraged.
- The claim is very stale, but Mr Justice Ian Kennedy said in 1995 that the delays since 1993 were not the fault of either party.
- By contrast in the present case, the defendants are faced with a truly stale claim first made upon them five years after the event.
verb steɪlsteɪl Make or become stale. no object she would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now Example sentencesExamples - The beans are then roasted and they are packaged in vac-packs to stop the air staling the product.
- Having live yeast in the cask ensures freshness because the ongoing fermentation helps to eliminate staling products that appear and the fresh hops ensure a vigorous hop flavour.
- We ate what food remained: staling bread, hard cheese, nuts, edible roots and plants - and slept beneath the stars despite the cold.
- As baguettes stale quickly, several batches are made daily.
- It's short, spunky, catchy, and, surprisingly for a lot of pop bands in this age, doesn't stale after repeated listens.
- Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
- And after a while, after the novelty has worn off and the newness stales, this once secret entity becomes common, and reluctantly accepted.
- "Age cannot wither her not custom stale her infinite variety " said Shakespeare of his heroine Cleopatra.
- Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom.
- If coffee beans are ground and exposed to air, they will begin to stale within the hour.
- This performance hasn't staled or faded into obsolescence.
- Firm flesh is a good indicator - flesh that appears to be separating into flakes is beginning to stale.
- They're efficient bursts of less-is-more rock that ride riffs hard then cut out right before they stale.
- Also, barley breads stale quickly, because they lack the water-retaining powers of the gluten network in wheat or the natural gums in rye.
- In bread applications, whey proteins that are chemically bound and interacting with starch could reduce the extent of staling during bread storage.
- As Evelyn Waugh says on the back of all the Penguin editions, ‘Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.’
Derivatives adverb It's a stalely directed tear-jerker with bad music choices, but if you're going to watch one, it's one of the better ones. Example sentencesExamples - By 1961 three of his songs - ‘Crazy,’ sung definitively by Patsy Cline, ‘Hello Walls,’ sung stalely by Faron Young, and ‘Funny How Time Slips Away’ sung adequately by Billy Walker - were such big hits that they crossed over to the pop charts, an almost unheard-of phenomenon at the time.
- Despite the trattoria's views of the Tiber and its thoroughly Roman menu, every dish seemed stalely reheated and bland.
- An interesting piece, all in all, even if it is stalely predictable.
- Dawson's prose is as sharp as always, and the interaction between the main character and his pupils is expressed precisely (though not stalely) through dynamic dialogue.
noun ˈsteɪlnəs This team has performed well in the last two years, but maybe there's a bit of staleness. Example sentencesExamples - Even if you toast stale bread in an attempt to disguise the staleness, it's still stale.
- Finding new enthusiasm and challenges, which can prevent feelings of burnout or staleness, is another reason to travel.
- All good things must come to an end, and when you've been doing a column as long as that there is always the danger of staleness, lack of new ideas, or sort of repeating successful formulas while on autopilot.
- Burning herbs and spices still has a place in the home: not to mask staleness and bad odours as they did in those dank houses of the past, but to perfume the air with an enjoyable sweetness.
Origin Middle English (describing beer in the sense 'clear from long standing, strong'): probably from Anglo-Norman French and Old French, from estaler 'to halt'; compare with the verb stall. Stale ale may not have much appeal, but beer is what stale originally described—not beer that has gone off, but beer that has been standing long enough for it to clear and perhaps improve in strength. The word was applied to food from the early 16th century.
Rhymes ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale verb steɪlsteɪl [no object](of an animal, especially a horse) urinate. the horse staled while he was riding Example sentencesExamples - But nervousness will likewise do it; fright, or anxiety of almost any kind, will make a horse stale inordinately.
- The information obtained from the owner was, that a month ago he perceived that the horse staled very much, but he attributed it to the oats being a little mildewed.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps from Old French estaler 'come to a stand, halt' (compare with stale1). adjectivestālsteɪl 1(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry. Example sentencesExamples - Large pots, merciless heat and a few decrepit plastic chairs and buckets fill her small tent, while bits of stale food cover the floor.
- They don't mind, since without those leftovers they would either starve or be rummaging in garbage dumps for stale food scraps.
- Never add food to a dish that has old food in it; throw the stale food out, wash the dish and replenish it with fresh food.
- Breakfast - a hunk of stale bread, a cup of sweet, sticky tea and a bowl of watery soup - was pushed through the bars of his cell, but he could eat nothing.
- 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.
- This then simmers for half an hour before being baked for an hour in a pan layered with very stale bread, Gruyere cheese, and the onion soup mixture.
- I felt a little embarrassed; my kitchen was full of stale food.
- Crusts of stale bread which would otherwise have been thrown out were left on the bridges, to be seized quickly by the diving birds.
- He had spent a restless night on a hard cot, with nothing but stale bread and ale to wake him up in the morning.
- Classic summer pudding is made with stale bread but it is much better made with store bought pound cake or brioche.
- And, save for hard, stale cookies and bars in health food stores, carob was scarce outside my own kitchen.
- ‘Very well,’ she said taking the bread back and slowly sinking her teeth into the stale crust.
- We finally make it to the park, loaves of stale bread spilling out of the plastic bags ready to nourish the ducks.
- The Nolans live on all the different foods that Katie makes from stale bread.
- Shopping centres, cinemas, high streets, motorways, schools - it seems that no matter where you go, greasy food and stale buns are increasingly on the menu.
- Sometimes the dough is stale and impossible to roll out.
- I want you to individually hand-dunk each cube of stale bread into the garlic-infused olive oil.
- Just cut off the crusts of some slightly stale bread, and whiz the bread in a food processor.
- The next morning, our hopes were further smothered as our complimentary ‘breakfast’ consisted of a stale bun and a cup of milk.
- Breakfast is always the same: instant oatmeal, coffee, and stale biscuits.
Synonyms dry, dried out, hard, hardened, old, past its best, past its sell-by date - 1.1 No longer new and interesting or exciting.
their marriage had gone stale Example sentencesExamples - The difficulties lie more in a plot that drags and characterizations that are rather stale.
- News cycles are much shorter and the film will appear stale if released six months later elsewhere.
- Indoor gardens can transform a stale room into a vibrant living space.
- Youthful energy can make stale old artistic endeavours exciting.
- Even though I'm hearing it for the first time, it seems like stale news.
- The events of that day had given this stale slogan a vibrating urgency.
- They were energetic and played an interesting style of music, but I found it very boring and stale.
- Yet far from being stale, her character comes across with freshness and believability.
- He quotes five passages of bad English, in all of which he finds two common qualities: stale imagery and lack of precision.
- The same approach over and over can become stale and boring for the students as well as their art teacher.
- I limp down the street to sweet black coffee where the morning news is old news by now and stale headlines trickle in the city with a heart of gold in a world at war in a laid-back state.
- Circus acts have grown so mundane, stale and outdated that animal acts are now the only way of attracting the publics' attention.
- Max is very unhappy with the stale, dull, boring, routine life and wife; he feels they've played it too safe and he needs a little danger in his life.
- Training programs get stale and boring after about a month of consistent workouts.
- Director, Eisner, deserves credit, too, for delivering a film that seems fresh and exciting, rather than stale and formulaic.
- Seriously, TV news may have been stale in the old days, but it was also respected.
- Yes I know you thought this matter was stale news but not for those who understand the ramifications for our democracy.
- You can enjoy this formula for a while - it does not really matter which bands you first became interested in, any will do - but it becomes stale.
- In the euphoria that surrounds the so-called mainstream, unemployment is stale news.
- As played by Jack Nicholson, he's a newly retired insurance actuary whose wife - in a stale, humdrum marriage - suddenly drops dead.
Synonyms hackneyed, tired, worn out, overworked, threadbare, warmed-up, banal, trite, stock, stereotyped, clichéd, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, platitudinous, unoriginal, derivative, unimaginative, uninspired, flat - 1.2predicative (of a person) no longer able to perform well or creatively because of having done something for too long.
a top executive tends to get stale Example sentencesExamples - It didn't send its green reporters to war, nor did it leave its stale reporters at home.
- I think you need that as a player, you do need new challenges, new people to learn from because you can go a bit stale.
- Agreeing with the five years in office rule, he admits to feeling a trifle stale in the last few terms.
- Originally, Kye was way more hotter in my mind, but when I wrote him, he turned into a worry-wart with a stale personality.
- ‘I'd like to be able to pull back from the business before I get stale and grumpy,’ she said.
- Simply, Le Guen believes every coach has a shelf-life of three or four years at any one club before he grows stale and people turn against him.
- ‘After three years as a mayor you tend to become a bit stale,’ Mr Windsor said.
- Even if you love what you're doing, it's almost inevitable that at some point you'll feel a little stale.
- For the past decade we've been getting 100 points per year but we thought that our team had become a little stale.
- While his on-air persona should not grow stale, Mr. McMahon is not the character he used to be.
- I won't defend him because I think he's stale and isn't half the wrestler he once was.
- 1.3 (of a check or legal claim) invalid because out of date.
Example sentencesExamples - For example, it is frequently said that the doctrine is an embodiment of the policy that defendants should be protected from stale claims and that claimants should not sleep on their rights.
- The courts should not be clogged with stale cases and parties should know that.
- The claim is very stale, but Mr Justice Ian Kennedy said in 1995 that the delays since 1993 were not the fault of either party.
- The makeweight argument worries about stale claims and evidence.
- The committee was satisfied that sufficient remedies were available through the courts to protect traders from stale claims.
- Counsel for the 1986 Trustee submits that the claims are stale, speculative, defensible and likely to fail.
- As I said at the outset of this judgment, the whole purpose of the Limitation Act is to ensure that claims are litigated promptly and that stale claims should be discouraged.
- By contrast in the present case, the defendants are faced with a truly stale claim first made upon them five years after the event.
- The second defendants have had to deal with stale claims and have been handicapped by the absence of potentially relevant documents after the warehouse fire.
verbstālsteɪl Make or become stale. Example sentencesExamples - It's short, spunky, catchy, and, surprisingly for a lot of pop bands in this age, doesn't stale after repeated listens.
- They're efficient bursts of less-is-more rock that ride riffs hard then cut out right before they stale.
- In bread applications, whey proteins that are chemically bound and interacting with starch could reduce the extent of staling during bread storage.
- Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
- Also, barley breads stale quickly, because they lack the water-retaining powers of the gluten network in wheat or the natural gums in rye.
- Having live yeast in the cask ensures freshness because the ongoing fermentation helps to eliminate staling products that appear and the fresh hops ensure a vigorous hop flavour.
- If coffee beans are ground and exposed to air, they will begin to stale within the hour.
- The beans are then roasted and they are packaged in vac-packs to stop the air staling the product.
- As baguettes stale quickly, several batches are made daily.
- As Evelyn Waugh says on the back of all the Penguin editions, ‘Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.’
- And after a while, after the novelty has worn off and the newness stales, this once secret entity becomes common, and reluctantly accepted.
- We ate what food remained: staling bread, hard cheese, nuts, edible roots and plants - and slept beneath the stars despite the cold.
- Firm flesh is a good indicator - flesh that appears to be separating into flakes is beginning to stale.
- This performance hasn't staled or faded into obsolescence.
- Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom.
- "Age cannot wither her not custom stale her infinite variety " said Shakespeare of his heroine Cleopatra.
Origin Middle English (describing beer in the sense ‘clear from long standing, strong’): probably from Anglo-Norman French and Old French, from estaler ‘to halt’; compare with the verb stall. verbstālsteɪl [no object](of an animal, especially a horse) urinate. the horse staled while he was riding Example sentencesExamples - The information obtained from the owner was, that a month ago he perceived that the horse staled very much, but he attributed it to the oats being a little mildewed.
- But nervousness will likewise do it; fright, or anxiety of almost any kind, will make a horse stale inordinately.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps from Old French estaler ‘come to a stand, halt’ (compare with stale). |