How to Use suspended animation in a Sentence

suspended animation

noun

• The idea is to keep us in suspended animation until the worst of the danger has passed.
  — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2020
• Among the many complications of the study are the unknown effects of suspended animation on long-term health.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 23 Nov. 2019
• The policy then goes into a state of suspended animation for months or even years as the case winds its way through federal courts.
  — David French, National Review, 26 July 2019
• The dehydrated tardigrade samples were in a state of suspended animation for their trip to the Moon and were encased in amber.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
• Welcome to the Great Shutdown, as wide swaths of the American economy enter suspended animation to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
  — Anders Melin, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• But the killing of Soleimani revealed that the neocon military-intellectual complex is very much still intact, with the ability to spring back to life from a state of suspended animation in an instant.
  — Jacob Heilbrunn, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Some of the specimens in Dr Rothman’s laboratory have been in suspended animation at -70°C for 33 years.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• And more speculatively, such methods might one day approximate the musings about suspended animation that turn up in the movies.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 15 June 2020
• The seasons march on, for frogs and foxes, even as our own period of suspended animation stretches out before us, indefinitely.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
• Peru will be in suspended animation until a new congress is elected in January 2020.
  — The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
• And such learned behaviours continue even after an animal has been in suspended animation for decades.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Without a pulse or any measurable brain activity, these patients are in true suspended animation by any measure.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
• For the first time, scientists have used therapeutic suspended animation to purposefully induce hypothermia and slow organ functions in patients with traumatic injuries, such as gunshot and stab wounds.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 23 Nov. 2019
• Good employment numbers, stock-market uncertainty, New York City’s suspended animation, and more.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020

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