stagnate - use in sentences

Object

  • price: As demand stagnates, so prices ( ours included ) are cut by £ 20,000 or more.
  • market: They have nothing to gain by having a large number of over-priced properties on their books stagnating the market.
  • standard: Either continue down this Labor path of stagnating standards where Ministers know best, where you take what you are offered.
  • water: But the fate of a second, smaller dolphin also spotted in the murky, stagnating water was unclear.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: We do want to move forward, not stagnate!
  • then: My feeling is that prices will dip and then stagnate for 5-10 years.
  • just: It just stagnates the genre when films like this and New Alcatraz are continually pumped out with little creativity.
  • only: As an athlete you should always be aiming to advance your physical capacities, adding a maintenance phase will only stagnate your progression.
  • eventually: If you stagnate eventually you will be shown the door and be taken from your friends anyway.

Preposition: for

  • year: My feeling is that prices will dip and then stagnate for 5-10 years.
  • decade: Aid does have positive effects on growth, yet aid donors have mysteriously overlooked this positive potential and allowed Africa to stagnate for decades.

Preposition: over

  • year: This sector has somewhat stagnated over the past few years.

Preposition: into

  • warfare: As the fighting stagnated into trench warfare, the Cyclists were more regularly used as ordinary infantry.

Preposition: in

  • quarter: But the euro zone economy stagnated anyway in the first quarter of 2003, with Germany registering negative growth of 0.1 % .

Preposition: for

  • couple: House prices stagnated for a couple of years from mid-1989.

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