As his name suggests, Ripple does not exactly make a splash in the stagnant suburban pond.

The London social world is such a stagnant pond that even so small an event as my appearing at a party will cause a ripple.

He emerged from a stagnant, pond, holding the hand of the girl.

When they reached a dark and stagnant pond he stopped in the shelter of the trees.

He used to recount a parable of a clean spring and a stagnant pond.

She lives in a village, the kind of village where nothing ever happens, exactly like a stagnant pond.

He would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun.

The family's house is across a lane from the store, beside a stagnant pond laden with blooms of garbage.

It's like the difference between a mountain stream running over rocks and a stagnant pond.

Were making a stagnant pond of air for us to live in.