How to Use stasis in a Sentence

stasis

noun

• The country is in economic stasis.
• His art was characterized by bursts of creativity followed by long periods of stasis.
• The start of the summer was marked by shock and stasis.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• This is a life shaped for the bounce and prowl of R & B, not the gnawing stasis of the blues.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• James’s report, there were signs that the stasis might not hold.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• But then, as the weeks passed, an uneasy stasis took hold.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• In this state, even death can seem like a welcome stasis.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• But what was meant to be a start, ended up being a stasis.
  — Jessica Crue, Allure, 31 Aug. 2021
• But there is something to be said in praise of stasis in our public life, as well.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• To Hendry, the paradox of stasis was never a paradox at all.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• And her pacing can be leisurely sometimes to the point of stasis.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 July 2020
• The fossil record clearly showed stasis in traits over time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• The creature stirs as its cells slowly wake up from their long stasis.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 June 2021
• Perel adds that the stasis of being at home all the time can be overwhelming.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 30 Oct. 2020
• All of the characters are in stasis, as if they were frozen in time since the Palladinos left the show at the end of season six.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• The three witches are the only ones able to navigate the space of the village, thrown into stasis.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Nuclear power has been in an odd stasis for the past decade.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
• Will our panedemic year of stasis change what that means?
  — Will Jeakle, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• To have seen so early in his career the anomie at the heart of boredom, stasis, inertia—what a gift that was.
  — Vivian Gornick, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Life stories pool in stasis or loop around on themselves.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• Jaffe had the kind of berries-and-cream upbringing that tends to suction people into stasis and turn them stale.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• The stasis of Max Mara creates a different kind of appeal.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
• After Abigail passed away on their home planet, Reginald left her body in stasis on the moon.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
• Texas has been stuck in stasis for a few weeks now, every step forward followed by some sort of setback.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2022
• On the problem of poverty, though, there has been no real improvement — just a long stasis.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• While the rest of the world seems caught in stasis, these two artists are on the move, urging people to act, engage and create, collectively.
  — Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
• The project itself, like so many others of late, came out of the stasis imposed by pandemic lockdown.
  — Stuart Munro, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• As the film explains, infants weren't able to survive cryogenic stasis.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The same critique can be levelled at most of the rest of the cycle, with the notable exception of the Fourth Symphony, which makes a virtue of lugubrious stasis.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Evolution, not stasis, is why Mexican food remains one of the most vibrant cuisines in the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024