How to Use stagnate in a Sentence

stagnate

verb
Definition of stagnatenext
  • 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
  • But by and large, people think that the country is stagnating.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 23 May 2024
  • 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 | Mrodak@al.com, 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
  • South Asian students still make up half the total foreign student population in India, but these numbers have stagnated in the past decade.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024
  • As unions’ power waned, real wages stagnated even as productivity grew.
    — Alan Green / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024

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