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.
  • In stasis, much like that crime scene.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
  • James’s report, there were signs that the stasis might not hold.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The creature stirs as its cells slowly wake up from their long stasis.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 June 2021
  • The stasis of the story’s first half begins, at last, to shift.
    — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But safety without stretch can keep us in stasis.
    — Jessica Agnew, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Will the forces for smart change outweigh the forces of stasis or dumb, easy-answers change?
    — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • And her pacing can be leisurely sometimes to the point of stasis.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 July 2020
  • And it was assumed that meant She-Hulk would be stuck in stasis too.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 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
  • Dynamism fades, and stasis settles in.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Nix throwing less this summer shouldn’t be confused with stasis.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Perel adds that the stasis of being at home all the time can be overwhelming.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Grief opens the way to a reckoning with place, stasis and deferred desire.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But the long history of stasis only strengthens the case for change.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Texas has been stuck in stasis for a few weeks now, every step forward followed by some sort of setback.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Within minutes, the force of the upwelling cleared the pool and stasis returned.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Joe and Angela have for years been locked in the kind of stasis that plenty of couples end up in.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • 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
  • Now, though, the stasis is finally starting to shift, for two reasons.
    — The Economist, 22 July 2017
  • As in Season 1, the sense of stasis is true to life — and frustrating to watch.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • The upper middle class might not be ready for the solutions to this shameful stasis.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2017
  • The second fight lasts longer, but quickly falls into stasis as the robots get stuck to each other.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Jaffe had the kind of berries-and-cream upbringing that tends to suction people into stasis and turn them stale.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Pagel describes species mostly being held in a kind of temporary stasis.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The year 2010 neared its end with the Middle East mired in stasis.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019

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