Sample Sentences forstagnant (auto-selected)
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Inside, the air was stagnant and thick with the smell of body odor.† (source)
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The water is stagnant and foul-smelling.† (source)
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The smell was of stale tobacco and stagnant air.† (source)
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We stayed the same, stagnant in our own bodies.† (source)
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A bloodred flamingo holds its black-tipped beak over stagnant water.† (source)
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Uncomfortably I stood in the stagnant, antique-crowded gloom, not knowing what to say.† (source)
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The air was stagnant, redolent of sweat.† (source)
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Always now like something he had put off, the thought of her was like a wave that hit him when he was tired, rising impossibly out of stagnancy and deprecation while he sat in the park, towering over his head, pounding, falling, going back and leaving nothing behind it.† (source)
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There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies.† (source)
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Around me the air is stagnant, despite the little current, the breath coming in past the curtains.† (source)
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Mosquitoes swarmed over stagnant ponds in the lowest areas.† (source)
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He tried to count how many times she swallowed and he thought of the visit from the two zinc-oxide-faced men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths and the Electronic-Eyed Snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and stagnant spring water, and he wanted to call out to her, how many have you taken tonight!† (source)
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Huge flowers bloomed in the mud and floated on pools of stagnant water, but if you were stupid enough to leave the causeway to pluck them, there were quicksands waiting to suck you down, and snakes watching from the trees, and lizard-lions floating half-submerged in the water, like black logs with eyes and teeth.† (source)
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In the abandoned ornamental garden, Rahel, watched by lolling dwarfs and a forsaken cherub, squatted by the stagnant pond and watched toads hop from stone to scummy stone.† (source)
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Stagnant desert water.† (source)
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The planet's surface was blurred by time, by the slow movement of the thin stagnant air that had crept across it for century upon century.† (source)
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