Button-down shirts look geeky, uptight and will make even the newest suit look slightly stale.

Machinery clanked and grumbled; something smelled oily and slightly stale.

Breads, ranging in price from $1.19 to $1.49 a pound, were slightly stale but toasted nicely and had a good, nutty flavor.

The room was plain and slightly stale from cigarette smoke, but clean.

The air she breathed was slightly stale, but clean air flowed in from vents in the top of the helmet.

She could even smell the moist, slightly stale aroma of the milk her sister was producing for her new calf.

"Well, I had some slightly stale but amazing bread," says Barda cheerfully.

If anything, they struck me, at age 7, as slightly stale.

The entire apartment needed a good cleaning, and the air smelled slightly stale.

He toasted two pieces of slightly stale sourdough bread and spread them with creamy Italian dressing.