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
• If the worst-case scenario is the same as the status quo, what is there to lose?
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 8 Mar. 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
• Instead, the best the Orioles can hope for is status quo.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2021
• That status quo is defined by the outcome if the Supreme Court didn’t take up the case at all.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2022
• But Schultz may not be able to persuade workers to stick to the status quo.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• But the status quo is not the answer with Golden State and Phoenix ruling the West.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Metal was for people like us who didn’t fit in with the status quo.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 15 Feb. 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
• Putin retreats and the pre-war status quo is reestablished.
  — Mark Cancian, Forbes, 7 Mar. 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
• What’s not said is that the quiet status quo at the outpost could change at any moment.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 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
• When this happens, the mark of their achievement goes with them, and office practices go back to the status quo.
  — Cathrin Stickney, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
• To do nothing would be a signal to fans that the status quo is acceptable.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• But that development, while keeping much of the rest of the car status quo has led to the weight concerns.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 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
• Many Israelis feel that a return to the pre–October 7 status quo would be unacceptable.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
• This new increase recommended Sunday by Gov. Newsom will certainly shake up the tax credit status quo.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024