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Example sentences for: stagnant

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By then, the city had become a stagnant backwater.
The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)
The legal services programs that existed in 1980 are gone, gutted by two decades of budget cuts, stagnant funding and increasing costs.
It's the deadly sense of enforced conformity, the stale air that blows in from the stagnant ponds of the Right.
The Enquirer 's circulation is stagnant.