staples

Example Sentences

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Focaccia stales quickly and can’t be saved for second-day restaurant use the way a sourdough loaf could.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Fashion stales when it becomes too hermetic and top-down, when it shuts out compelling news from the wider world.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2013

Much of Weimar-period German art is a crude mix of De Chirico and cartooning, but one doesn't object to seeing it here, although it quickly stales.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forty-five stales in succession cast every vote for Landon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where else would we gather our Zirin stales and our Zirin flowers and our Zirin bulbs?

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill