Example sentences for: stasis

How can you use “stasis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What Degas discovered in photography was a nighttime art of stasis and meditative inwardness.

  • At another, you have to commit to a "lifework" or risk drifting into stasis.

  • Rodchenko and his friends in the various groupings of the left wing of Soviet art in the 1920s saw themselves as embattled representatives of the true spirit of the Revolution, in the face of various currents of reaction, mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.

  • I was impatient with The Straight Story 's opening--the arty dissolves, the crawling pace, the sense of stasis.

  • Burne-Jones prefers stasis to activity; he likes to paint people asleep, turned into stone or trees, or chained up (like the maiden waiting to see if the dragon or King George gets there first).


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