How to Use status quo in a Sentence

status quo

noun
  • He is content with the status quo and does not like change.
  • Warsh would break that status quo.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • That status quo will work for some but not for all.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
  • But back pain doesn’t have to be your status quo.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Now, the status quo from the last school year is back in place.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • This is the new status quo for Buzelis.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Keeping the line status quo is not the way to do that.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This is, of course, the view of people for whom the status quo works fine.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • If the worst-case scenario is the same as the status quo, what is there to lose?
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But that is simply a return to pre-war status quo.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • The problem with the status quo is that prices never seem to go down.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
  • Who then would wish to revert to the pre-fracking status quo?
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Metal was for people like us who didn’t fit in with the status quo.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Wiemers said the district could have returned to that status quo.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • So much so that the status quo norms will do any and everything to take them down.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Ross kept this regime status quo at the end of last season, and then put his wallet away.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • For me, this isn’t about maintaining status quo.
    — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But the new deal does little to change the status quo for at least five years, when new terms will be worked out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The culture has shifted too much for the status quo to remain in place.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • For so many of us, our mere existence poses a threat to the status quo.
    — Amanda Nguyen, Marie Claire, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The book became a guide for many restaurateurs fed up with the status quo.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Not afraid to remove everything they have been told is the status quo and move.
    — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2020
  • But Schultz may not be able to persuade workers to stick to the status quo.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And each one preserves the commission status quo, at least in the short run.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
  • What’s not said is that the quiet status quo at the outpost could change at any moment.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • This could be a new status quo for the Bulls, whose roster includes six guards.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Neither side wants to return to the prewar status quo.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Urgent yet also our status quo.
    — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • If the status quo continues, two-thirds of those jobs could vanish, the groups warned.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Klavins wants politicians on both sides of the aisle that challenge their party’s status quo.
    — Hannah Fingerhut, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026

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