The beer is stale.

I went to the local baker and took their stale bread.

Debate in some cases had become stale and repetitive, with no tangible benefits for women.

The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas to make groups and teams work effectively.

I remember feeling claustrophobic as I walked down its narrow halls and into classrooms turned into crude cellblocks. The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.

The second thing that Xi and his colleagues need to do is to follow up with specific policies and actions that can bolster the credibility of their declared goals. Political slogans, however high sounding, become stale when their purveyors fail to make good on their promises.

No. I think the actual answer is that once you reframe it, once you get out of one set of stale expectations from a failed project that had its day, but now, for whatever reason, is tarnished, you can actually rekindle the kind of human kindness and sharing that something like this on Craigslist represents.