How to Use stagnant in a Sentence

stagnant

adjective

• The air is stagnant in a small back room of the shelter.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2022
• The starting unit was stagnant and was outscored 17-4 to open the game.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• The entire top unit has been out of sync and stagnant over the last 20ish games.
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• The air was stagnant with the lingering, acrid smell of smoke, rot, and death.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• The idea, Hill said, is to invest in a stagnant area and expand the tax base in the long run.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 May 2022
• For much of the past year, the British economy has been stagnant.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The Russian front lines north of Kharkiv were stagnant for more than a month.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2022
• The Suns look to improve on that in Game 2 as the offense was stagnant at times in Game 1.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
• Grant was brought here to improve the stagnant return game of the Browns.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2022
• The lot was north of downtown, and its office had the stagnant air of a toolshed.
  — Dan Hernandez, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2023
• In that way, Smith said, the Mets will not become stagnant.
  — Deesha Thosar, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2022
• And running back Tyler Badie may be the answer to the team’s stagnant run game.
  — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2024
• The offense was stagnant and scored more than 30 points just twice.
  — Joe Eachus, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Workers have faced stagnant wages for the past 40 years.
  — Celine-Marie Pascale, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
• Weather changes – such as heat waves and droughts – can lead to stagnant air.
  — cleveland, 12 May 2022
• Seth Henson’s 35-yard field goal capped the opening drive of the game to give Male a 3-0 lead, but the offense was stagnant for much of the night.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2023
• That stagnant pattern led to a very warm month in July.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• To a Gem, the worst thing a relationship can be is stagnant.
  — Women's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• When the weather gets hot and stagnant, the folks who live on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay go on high alert.
  — David Rainer Alabama Department Of Conservation and Natural Resources, al, 10 Aug. 2023
• But then Bernard is back again, still a stagnant tortoise.
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
• But rap dropped 19 percent from last year, and pop stayed stagnant.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
• During dry weather, the creek stops flowing to the ocean, grows stagnant and fills with trash.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• Soaring prices and years of stagnant wages are the backdrop to this year's disputes.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sad to say, rock music has been in a pretty stagnant place for the past couple of decades.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• The film, which is entirely in German, has long, stagnant shots that would put him to sleep.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• While many states saw their threshold rise over the past year, New York was stagnant compared with 2022.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 July 2023
• Wires hung from ceilings; puddles stood stagnant on the ground.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• Teachers are quitting in droves over stagnant salaries and burnout.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
• Thomas was tremendous, but Claude and the rest of the Trojans offense was largely stagnant.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
• While the pandemic accelerated these declines, kids’ reading and math scores were stagnant long before.
  — Sara Schapiro, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Feb 2025