The stale water in the puddles and pools outside is much more attractive.

So he got up to drink stale water from a jug.

There was a familiar smell in the air here, of old, stale water.

He was like a fish, bred in stale fresh water, which is thrown for the first time into a living stream.

The water tasted different: it was stale and flat, city water.

After the stale, musty water he'd been getting, how fine it tasted!

He sucked eagerly from a bottle of warm, stale water.

His skin bumped and splashed in puddles of stale water.

I washed my face with the stale water in the ewer.

A few pills washed down with a glass of stale water, sitting on the edge of his bed.