23 examples of staleness in sentences

There!" Around a rear hallway, they were almost immediately into a blank, staring hotel bedroom, fresh towels on the furniture-tops only enhancing its staleness.

They have a test by which they can value all future experience and know the dullness and staleness of worldly success.

Their enthusiasm may put staleness to rout, and the group system of women land workers, already tested in the crucible of experience, may bring to the farm the needed antidote to isolation.

The cause of this bitterness is staleness, but it is not so noticeable in the coarse or medium oatmeal.

Moreover, I am so disgusted with the staleness of men, that henceforth I desire them only as friends.

This curious thing, which happens frequently in athletic activities, is known as second-wind, and is described, by those who have experienced it, as a time of increased power, when the work is done with greater ease and effectiveness and with a freshness and vigor in great contrast to the staleness that preceded it.

There was a general odor of decaying fruit and fish, a smell of staleness and putridity.

How curious it is that really good players, from staleness or some unknown cause, occasionally become absolutely useless for a time!

The air was cool after the fetid staleness of that room.

The girl kept on, conscious that her irksome critic was taking keen note of a subtle, cruel decay of her beauty, a spiritual corrosion that, without other fault to the eye, had at last reached the surface in a faint hardening of lines and staleness of bloom.

There was no hint of the laggard now in Tom, Dick and Harryno suspicion of "staleness" in their keen pride in their work; Irish and Rover, ever fleet and responsive, needed no urging; Jack McMillan gave his stupendous energy, his superb intelligence with loyal abandon; and Baldy, as well as "Scotty," felt that each dog in the entire team had proved the wisdom of his choice by a willing service now to the driver he loved.

She looked ahead, this fresh, vigorous young Englishwoman, and wondered how she was to endure the staleness of life.

The worst of quotations is that either their staleness is tedious or their unfamiliarity irritates.

This often betray'd us into hard Beds and bad Chear; for we were not so inquisitive about the Inn as the Inn-keeper; and, provided our Landlord's Principles were sound, did not take any Notice of the Staleness of his Provisions.

'I think,' she began, 'that the staleness you complain of' 'I never said "staleness,"' I protested.

'I think,' she began, 'that the staleness you complain of' 'I never said "staleness,"' I protested.

The staleness you noticed is due to our men being so largely educated by old womenold maids.

All staleness, weariness, all complications and conventional duties, all jealousies and envyings, were absent.

Instead of which I sit here, day after day, overflowing with my own ridiculous thoughtsand the world discharging all its staleness and stupidity like a sewer in these horrible documents.

Through the fog, which nigh choked me with its staleness, I perceived a bulky gentleman seated at ease, sucking a long clay pipe, his bulging legs cocked up on a card-table, his little, inflamed eyes twinkling red in the candle-light.

Every one knew what to expect, on both sides, and no one quite escaped from the resulting sense of staleness.

Yes, they had to revive their past so as to love each other, they had constantly to be reassembling the pieces so as to keep their love from dying through staleness, as if they were undergoing, in darkness and in dust, in an icy ebbing away, the ruin of old age, the impress of death.

"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come," he would chant, with never a qualm at the staleness of the slogan.

23 examples of  staleness  in sentences