How to Use stalemate in a Sentence

stalemate

1 of 2 noun

• The new agreement could break the stalemate.
• The budget debate ended in a stalemate.
• The budget debate ended in stalemate.
• And so for many, many years, it’s been kind of a stalemate.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 22 Feb. 2023
• The first round of the fight appears to have ended in a stalemate.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Then, Dylan Treese broke the stalemate late in the first to give the Lions a lead.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2023
• Russia and Hamas have time enough to aim for a stalemate.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• The agreement ends - for now - the contract stalemate between the two sides.
  — oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• Ukraine’s naval success has been a bright spot amid the costly stalemate on the ground.
  — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
• The Panthers and Eagles played to a 16-all stalemate in the third period.
  — al, 17 Feb. 2023
• Under the accord, in the case of a stalemate, the dispute would be referred to the United Nations.
  — Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• Yet this outcome now seems like a stalemate, if not a defeat.
  — Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
• But with the war in an apparent winter stalemate, the tropes about the bravery of the Ukrainian troops have grown tired.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2023
• To many outsiders, Myanmar appears to be locked in a bloody stalemate.
  — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
• Rising would have more chances on goal but wouldn’t be able to convert them, as both teams entered the half in a 0-0 stalemate.
  — Alex Chenevey, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2023
• Russian and Ukrainian forces have been locked in a stalemate of fighting for the eastern city.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Nothing was decided in the fourth quarter, with the Eagles and the Golden Bears locked in a 42-42 stalemate.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2023
• But don’t count out the value of tanks of the right variety to turn the tide of a war that has threatened to descend into a long stalemate.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• In recent months, as a stalemate has emerged on the ground, speculation has grown about Putin’s readiness to end the war.
  — Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2024
• After a six-year stalemate, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
  — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• The stalemate, now in its second week, has thrown the House into chaos, grinding all other business to a halt.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps then, there will be a vibe shift in the workplace next year with a clear winner who turns the stalemate into a checkmate.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Hezbollah and Israel fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a tense stalemate.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• The month-long war ended in a stalemate and ceasefire brokered by the United Nations.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 15 Oct. 2023
• The fighting has largely ceased and the war is essentially a stalemate.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Home prices held and the stalemate between buyers and sellers remained.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• Whichever the case, talks are at a stalemate with the end of the contract — midnight on July 31 — rapidly approaching.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• The ruling will come as a relief to Macron after months of protests and strikes that had turned into a bitter stalemate with the labor unions that oppose the law.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• The country’s top general has said the conflict is at risk of becoming a stalemate.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
• Lawmakers have faced a decades-long political stalemate on how to fix it.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024

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stalemate

2 of 2 verb

• With the bases loaded and the game stalemated at 1-1 at the top of the eighth inning, a pair of infield errors by Apopka helped the Huskies score two runs.
  — OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• The teams had been stalemated since the sixth inning before Croppy’s blast.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 May 2017
• Throw in hot weather and a confusing war that has stalemated much of the progress that was being made or could be made.
  — Burt Solomon, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
• And the talks have been essentially stalemated since on these last two.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, the vote doesn't go anywhere and everyone agrees to stalemate.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 3 May 2023
• For months, the LNA and the militias have been locked in fierce clashes on Tripoli’s southern outskirts, with the fighting mostly stalemated.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• With the two sides stalemated, the state entered what would become a historic, two-year budget impasse.
  — Kim Geiger, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• The war is stalemated, that seems so obvious now except for the fact that both sides totally deny it.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Instead, everyone lines up and simply tries to plug his hole or stalemate his blocker.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The diplomacy has been stalemated for months, with North Korea pressing the United States to make concessions by year’s end.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• But the truth is that the battle was stalemated until Trump came into office and unleashed the military with new rules of engagement.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• While most of the ground fighting is stalemated along that front line, both sides are targeting other territory with long-range weapons.
  — Susie Blann and Elise Morton, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
• The issues that originated the obsession with the region have all been either solved or stalemated.
  — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 9 July 2013
• But as long as Ukrainian forces continue periodically to move forward and the Russians prove unable simply to stop them and hold them, the war will not be stalemated.
  — Karolina Hird, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• And partisan differences have stalemated spending bills in the Senate.
  — Sarah Binder, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
• Turkey has stalemated the Libyan and Syrian civil wars.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• But both presidents shared similar impatience with a balky Congress and a desire to take action when stalemated.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• The infighting has left vets frustrated, Congress confused — and a key piece of legislation stalemated.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 15 May 2019
• Even so, the accord was embraced by Biden and enactment would signal a significant turnabout after years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress.
  — Alan Fram, ajc, 12 June 2022
• Meantime, the House investigation, itself, has been stalemated by a week of partisan wrangling.
  — David Lauter, latimes.com, 31 Mar. 2017
• Was the media partly culpable for pressuring the authorities to put an end to an expensive operation that seemed to be stalemated?
  — Noel Murray, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
• The front-line fighting largely stalemated over the winter, with expectations of major offensives by both sides expected in more favorable spring weather.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• Using our example, a situation in which a buyer expected a home’s doorbell security camera to be included in the purchase — and the seller expected to take it — could stalemate the sale.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• The six commissioners — three Democrats and three Republicans — frequently stalemate along party lines, resulting in dismissals of cases.
  — Meg Kinnard, ajc, 20 July 2022
• But Larson was among the 105 representatives to approve the bill after debate ended, though property tax reform ultimately failed when the two chambers stalemated.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2018
• The documents also include battlefield assessments, including for Bakhmut, the Ukrainian town where Russian and Ukrainian forces have been stalemated for months, locked in a ferocious grinding artillery campaign that has left thousands dead.
  — Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima, Evan Hill and Samuel Oakford, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• As Ukrainian forces endeavor to capitalize on recent battlefield wins, winter’s rapid approach threatens to stalemate the conflict and offer Russian commanders a chance to stall their momentum.
  — Karoun Demirjian, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• That means avoiding a default on federal obligations this summer, an event that economists warn could cause economic chaos and a topic on which Biden and congressional Republicans are currently stalemated.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• The possibility exists, always, that tossing a rookie quarterback into the fire backfires in spectacular fashion—badly enough to stalemate said QB’s development, in some cases.
  — Chris Burke, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• But the resolute resistance by Republicans from high carbon-states could stalemate not only Democrats, and the environmental groups usually allied with them, but even Republicans from the areas increasingly worried about climate change.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024