Example Sentences

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There is an improvisational air to this-play that lends freshness to a stalely familiar genre, the Jewish family comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

For let class-jealousy be what it may, a woman hates to see another woman left stalely on the shelf, without a chance.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

It was all so stalely familiar—the little rustle of excitement, the preliminary clapping, the settling down to listen, and then the sea of upturned faces spread out beneath her.

From The Splendid Folly by Pedler, Margaret