How to Use status quo in a Sentence

status quo

noun

• He is content with the status quo and does not like change.
• But for now, the status quo has not budged, The New York Times says.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 June 2022
• What is the status quo around the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif?
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
• Voters have cried out for a change from the status quo.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
• But the status quo is something that Ben Gvir and Smotrich can work with.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
• Their first goal is to maintain the status quo at any cost.
  — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 12 July 2022
• But Schultz may not be able to persuade workers to stick to the status quo.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• The status quo allows for Muslims alone to worship at the site, where the Al-Aqsa mosque stands.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Dating Investors seem to have grown bored of the status quo.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• The book became a guide for many restaurateurs fed up with the status quo.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 2 Aug. 2022
• The culture has shifted too much for the status quo to remain in place.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• And each one preserves the commission status quo, at least in the short run.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
• The thought of taking a risk and giving up the security of the status quo could be scary.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• That’s a lot of money to spend on a horrific status quo.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The day until which Smart-TD, the last union to reject the September deal, has agreed to maintain the status quo.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2022
• The goal is to drag out the debate and introduce doubt where there shouldn’t be in order to defend the status quo.
  — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• And to what degree was this more of the status quo, but just in a more aggressive fashion?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
• To do nothing would be a signal to fans that the status quo is acceptable.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• The Crimsons have come close in the last few years, but Male once again protected the status quo of the rivalry.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 29 May 2022
• The terms of the expiring agreement will remain in force under the status quo.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2022
• In much of the world, people are dissatisfied with the status quo and eager to see changes for the better.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022
• Practical new arrangements are in the spotlight near the full Moon of the 28th but the 19th holds an aspect that prompts you to rebel against the status quo.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 Mar. 2022
• At the same time, however, Lai pledged not to provoke China or change the cross-strait status quo.
  — Bonnie S. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024
• The result is a shaky status quo with both the U.S. and Iran avoiding escalation.
  — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
• But don’t expect either team to maintain the status quo.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 18 June 2022
• But the facts on the ground suggest that the region cannot return to its unstable prewar status quo.
  — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
• Another stunt to mess with the status quo, to ruffle feathers, to challenge.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2022
• The impact was so destabilizing to the status quo that the government shut it down.
  — Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Those certainly are troublesome and do result in this sort of status quo of – can be a game of attrition on Ukraine.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
• The generation that would usher in these major cultural shifts was letting out its first primal scream against the stifling status quo.
  — Rachel Wallace, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024