Example sentences for: stagnant

How can you use “stagnant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The actual issue is not explained, but the charge taps into the populist anger about stagnant wages, foreign competition, and the globalization that both Clinton and Dole, in fact, have supported.

  • 8% of the respondents correctly reported mosquito habitat as stagnant water, inside dark houses, or vegetation.

  • The opportunism of some carpetbaggers was more economic than political: The war-ravaged and economically stagnant South direly needed Northern investors to spur the kind of dynamic industrial and commercial growth that was transforming the rest of the country.

  • The Enquirer 's circulation is stagnant.

  • Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.


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