They cannot forget that Karl Marx was a Jew: and one wonders how many Trotzkys and Lenines are being bred in the stagnant air of their reeking ghettos.
They are filling in the vacant spots of the older States, the abandoned farms, stagnant half-empty villages, undrained swamps, uninviting rocky hillsides.
And where slavery does exist it exists in stagnant pools of humanity, and it exists side by side with the other monsters, cruel superstition and widespread disease, that progressive humanity has left behind.
A new power had descended into the stagnant waters of European life, and imparted to them a wonderful energy.
But when we remember the incalculably tremendous inertia, and the strangely stagnant spirit of heathen lands, it seems rapid.
And the missionaries have been its advance agents into the stagnant East, and the savage wilds of the southern hemisphere.
How his heart must ache for the sound of men's voices, the touch of their hands, some sense of loving or friendly companionship to break the icy monotony of his weary, stagnant existence.
Hot tears, her tears, were tricking down his hollow cheeks, kindling his stagnant blood by their warmth, and thawing the apathetic chill whose icy hand had lain so heavy upon him.
Still grew my bosom then, Still as a stagnant fen!
A way must be found out of this stagnant watching.
It is in the stagnant water that disease germs waken to horrid life.
Your anarchists and your breeders of discord are never found among busy men; they breed, like mosquitoes, out of stagnant places.
The passage of the second into the third period depended on the development of the Dynamical branch of mechanics, which had been in a stagnant condition from the time of Archimedes or the Alexandrian School.
The reforms have been slow in coming, however, and the economy has been largely stagnantfor the past four years.
In 1991, deficient rainfall, stagnant export volume, and sagging export prices held economic growth below the all-important population growth figure.
Despite subsequent government efforts to implement reforms urged by the IMF and the World Bank, the economy remained stagnant in FY91 as entrepreneurs lack the incentive to take economic risks.
I entered the stagnant room, ran up my stairs, my heart with me--and paused.
When at last the great stagnant kitchen came into view, it was my whole inward self that cried out in me.
Meanwhile Chakka would crack his nut, and with stagnant eye sidle thievishly up and down the bars of his cage; while Plum gobbled up dainties or snored on his crimson cushion.
Dangling here and there amid the pendulous leaves hung enormous fruits--pears stagnant and heavy as shaped lumps of lead or of stone.
The packed little parlour hung stagnant in the candlelight.
Among my books and my drugs in my lonely den at Mansie I could let the great drove of the human race pass onwards with their politics and inventions and tittle-tattle, and I remained behind stagnant and happy.
Not stagnant either, for I was working in my own little groove, and making progress.
Without that, peace is only the scum on the surface of the foul and stagnant pool.
They find its basin full of stagnant water, disgusting to the taste.
Bruges has neither river nor fountain, but abundance of stagnant canals and reservoirs.
And laughters urged, your astral course I mark,-- Warped to what ports remote your hulks shall swim Or anchor silent in what stagnant dark?
Let snows and stagnant seas my province blight, Deep down in matrix grots shall I consume My mother's flesh, my spirit and the night.
A few weeping-willows wave their branches over the stagnant water, and increase still more the melancholy appearance of the spot.
We managed to box her off, however, in the right direction, when the topsail was backed, and we lay motionless on the half stagnant water waiting for the return of the boats.
Their heads are rushing streams, but as they approach the lake they become reedy, stagnant lakelets hard to cross.
What he suspects, however, we know from a scene in the caverns under the Castle, when he is on the point of pushing his brother over a ledge of rock into a stagnant pool that stinks of death.
Maeterlinck's imagination has been compared "to a lake with desolate and stagnant waters, unceasingly reflecting the same black landscapes, on whose banks the same suffering personages for ever come to sit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stagnant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
