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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