• Synonyms: stale
  Meaning: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"

• Synonyms: stale
  Meaning: urinate, of cattle and horses

• Stale and facile platitudes
• There are the stale vegetables now.
• Weren't I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms?
• Government, I repeat, was to him flat, stale, unprofitable.
• If it does not foam well, when put in, it is too stale to use.
• But to Felix everything suddenly became flat, stale, and unprofitable, because Peter continued to hold the championship of bitter apples.
• When babies are fed on crackers dipped in coffee, or, as among the Italian immigrants, on stale bread dipped in sour wine, there is a poor foundation laid for a vigorous manhood.
• It all hung together; they were subject, he and the great vagueness, to an equal and indivisible law. When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure.
• Since it was in Time that he was to have met his fate, so it was in Time that his fate was to have acted; and as he waked up to the sense of no longer being young, which was exactly the sense of being stale, just as that, in turn, was the sense of being weak, he waked up to another matter beside.
• Two-thirds of Germany's property was destroyed and 18,000,000 of her citizens were killed, because men quarrelled about the way to glorify "The Prince of Peace." Marching through rain and snow, sleeping on the ground, eating stale food or starving, contracting diseases and facing guns that fire six hundred times a minute, for fifty cents a day--this is the soldier's life.

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