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
• The year 2010 neared its end with the Middle East mired in stasis.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• 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
• And it was assumed that meant She-Hulk would be stuck in stasis too.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
• Will the forces for smart change outweigh the forces of stasis or dumb, easy-answers change?
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• As in Season 1, the sense of stasis is true to life — and frustrating to watch.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 27 June 2024
• In this state, even death can seem like a welcome stasis.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• The best hope for the Onge at Dugong Creek seems to be a handout-dependent stasis.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• But what was meant to be a start, ended up being a stasis.
  — Jessica Crue, Allure, 31 Aug. 2021
• Within minutes, the force of the upwelling cleared the pool and stasis returned.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Now, maybe Biden will kind of go back to stasis and be able to get more attention.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• 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
• Cancer This week, your goal doesn’t need to be to keep the world in a perfect winter stasis.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 5 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But once the smoke from UKIP’s wreckage has cleared, the national picture will be one of stasis.
  — The Economist, 4 May 2018
• But the long history of stasis only strengthens the case for change.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Otherwise, Russia, which has often been open to Western programs of modernization, has kept its émigrés at arm’s length, both at times of stasis and at times of change.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024