How to Use stagnate in a Sentence

stagnate

verb

• There are also folks of all ages that don’t want to stagnate.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• But sticking around doesn’t mean wages and salaries have to stagnate.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
• To sit still is to stagnate, which is to be unseated.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• Some will drift away from the sport; others will stagnate or get injured.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2022
• Yet none of these factors will stagnate long-term global growth.
  — Shirley Yu, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• Rarely did its avid crowds feel too overwhelming, nor did the line stagnate.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Will the tech sector, which has been a growth engine, stagnate?
  — Martin Reeves, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• Wages have stagnated while housing, child care and food costs have climbed.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025
• Of course, this doesn’t mean that the revenue from its theme parks has stagnated.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• But his progress has stagnated this season.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• The run game was elite, but the passing game stagnated by the end of his tenure.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• That came after two straight years of stagnating sales at the chain before the deal.
  — WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Earth got stuck in a crisis state where the land was burning and the oceans stagnating.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• Some people will stagnate in their lives and expect the same of their friendships.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• This might add to some viewers’ sense that the story is stagnating.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025
• Research shows that people who stay in their comfort zone at work stagnate and get bored.
  — Lisa D. Foster, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• The middle class is stagnating while the rich get even richer.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• And while the Knicks surged, the Spurs stagnated.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
• And when the weather cools, the wind slows down, allowing the air to stagnate.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
• Fire storms also tend to stagnate, staying parked over the fires that create them.
  — National Geographic, 6 Jan. 2020
• Switch sales have stagnated in recent months as the console ages.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 May 2023
• The gender gap in wages, which had stagnated in the eighties, was on its way up again.
  — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
• But by and large, people think that the country is stagnating.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• What separates those who grow from those who stagnate is mindset.
  — Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Most notably, for the last 50 years, their wages have stagnated.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2020
• It could also be used to excuse stagnating wages as the cost of living soars.
  — Joe Wilkins Published Jan 22, Futurism, 22 Jan. 2026
• As the season winds-down, the seedlings will go dormant and stagnate in size, then resume growth in spring.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• Job and wage growth has recently slowed and is expected to stagnate this year.
  — The Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
• There are some signs the industry is stagnating.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
• Even for those that are employed, wages and salaries have stagnated and in no way have kept up with the cost of living.
  — Curtis R. Ryan, Washington Post, 4 June 2018