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
• Will the tech sector, which has been a growth engine, stagnate?
  — Martin Reeves, Fortune, 29 Mar. 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
• The middle class is stagnating while the rich get even richer.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Some will drift away from the sport; others will stagnate or get injured.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2022
• Rarely did its avid crowds feel too overwhelming, nor did the line stagnate.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• In contrast, iPhone 14 models have been tipped to stagnate, with Apple reusing the iPhone 13 chipset.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The novel fell off the Times list after a week, and sales mostly stagnated over the summer.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• And the Bulls offense continues to stagnate — failing to crack 110 points in five of their last six games.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• In the nineteen-nineties, though, the industry began to stagnate.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Yet none of these factors will stagnate long-term global growth.
  — Shirley Yu, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• Switch sales have stagnated in recent months as the console ages.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 May 2023
• This is not the time to stagnate, as the energy of February will require you to take steps forward.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• Shares in the group have largely stagnated over the last seven years and the group ‘s market cap has declined by more than 4% in value over the last 12 months.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 15 Mar. 2024
• The shift came as revenue from the software business stagnated.
  — Olga Kharif, Fortune Crypto, 2 Aug. 2023
• Research shows that people who stay in their comfort zone at work stagnate and get bored.
  — Lisa D. Foster, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• If not, the country would stagnate even worse than the Soviet Union did in its terminal phase.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Alabama, which has yet to score a run past the fourth inning in the tournament, continued to see its bats stagnate in the sixth.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 27 May 2022
• Why did this group show some progress when so many other students stagnated or slipped?
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 1 May 2023
• What can a high performer do when their career is stagnating?
  — Byanne Chow, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
• The fight for Bakhmut and Lyman comes down to strategic positioning for both sides before the front lines stagnate in the cold weather.
  — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• With a full return to in-person work, such advancements would stagnate.
  — Bob Venero, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• The key House committee in 2022 cleared a landmark privacy bill, but the push has since stagnated.
  — Cristiano Lima-Strong, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The two barriers cause the air in the region to stagnate, leading to higher concentration of aerosols.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• But efforts stagnated and the shelter is troubled, say some of the migrants living there.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2023
• While the achievement of U.S. students overall has stagnated over the last decade, the military’s schools have made gains on the national test since 2013.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The economy will stagnate long after the Covid lockdowns are just a bad memory.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The median earner in the U.S. has watched her wages stagnate over the past several decades as the wealth and power of the country’s richest has exploded.
  — Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
• While annual pay for CEOs has recently stagnated a bit, the gap is still huge.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024