How to Use stodgy in a Sentence

stodgy

adjective
  • Proof that the world, even the old, stubborn, stodgy, white golf world, could change.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In all the old movies the ministers’ wives are kind of dowdy and stodgy.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The old, stale, stodgy stuff just isn’t worthy of this chicken.
    — Molly Baz, Bon Appétit, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Of course, in that era Wall Street was mostly a stodgy place.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The housing tide is shifting, and for now, the edge has gone to the stodgy old-timers.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Coats that reach close to the ankle are old-fashioned and stodgy looking.
    — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Welcome to 2021, where the stodgy are no match for the stonky.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • His stodgy shoes pump and move over the pedals at the end of his reliable wool legs.
    — Katherine Dunn, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • If your dip still feels a bit stodgy, try adding a little more tahini or olive oil to smooth it out.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Paul and Prue are legends, sure, but their tastes have gotten a bit stodgy.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • If the dip still feels a bit stodgy, try adding a little more tahini or olive oil to smooth it out.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2026
  • The Crown season 4 soundtrack is far less stodgy this time around.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Besides, a high-fiber breakfast doesn’t have to mean one that’s stodgy or boring.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 27 Mar. 2025
  • But in many ways, the newspaper had grown stodgy and lost its dominance.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • But otherwise, downtown was a stodgy precinct of banks, law offices and not much else.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • On air, the couple broke from the stodgy, sermon-centric format of their peers.
    — Jonathan Merritt, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2021
  • But the Castle also has been depicted as stodgy and out of step with the times.
    — chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The piece is a pantomime both between the two women and of the stodgy form of a lecture itself.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • While some gluten is necessary for the structure of many baked goods, too much will yield a dense, stodgy texture.
    — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The sport has worked hard to fight its stodgy reputation in an effort to attract younger fans.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Golfs have been a bit stodgy in their interior tech, and the graphics are a welcome change.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2021
  • In a stodgy industry, Seefried stands out, tall and even a little glamorous.
    — Robb Mandelbaum, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • No matter how much the traditional, stodgy, old-school style of baseball tries to change him.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The caterpillar is always the stodgy, slow-moving thing confined to the ground.
    — Rose Eveleth, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2022
  • An event at the Avant family home wasn’t a stodgy affair with canapes, friends recalled.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • An attempt to open a cleaner, stodgier club in the old space was dead by 2007.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
  • By the 1980s, those performances would look to most as stodgy and dated.
    — Corey Atad, Esquire, 24 July 2017
  • Roll the Calls shatters the mold of stodgy CEO memoirs.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • To this point the film has been admiring of Margrete to a slightly stodgy degree.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The stodgy economies of Japan and the UK have become the major holders.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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