How to Use hydrostatic in a Sentence

hydrostatic

adjective

• The thing is, when those waves are finally in motion, the water that bounces back creates hydrostatic pressure on the wave-making paddles.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
• Rounding out the features is a lever that disengages the hydrostatic drive to allow the machine to roll easily when not running.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
• Modern sea anemones creep along the seafloor using a similar system of hydrostatic inflation.
  — Robert Moor, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
• Plus, the compressive forces of water—known as hydrostatic pressure—can bring other benefits, too.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
• Firefighters issued more than half of the violations for standpipes that failed hydrostatic testing, the records show.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• As newer methods have been developed, hydrostatic weighing may become less sought after.
  — Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2025
• Its transmission is hydrostatic, meaning that fluid pressure makes the tractor go forward or backward.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2016
• Trees gradually lost hydrostatic pressure during the drought, then didn’t have time to recover enough before this fire season.
  — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 1 Nov. 2017
• Riding lawn mowers do this either through a manual or hydrostatic transmission.
  — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2023
• The hydrostatic pressure of the water also helps enhance blood flow and reduces inflammation.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
• This type of French drain is often called a weeping tile system and is intended to relieve hydrostatic pressure on the walls of the foundation.
  — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
• Newer models use hydrostatic steering, in which each side's track runs independently.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
• Since most living tissue is primarily composed of water, the energy from the bullet travels through the fluid in the body, a process known as hydrostatic shock.
  — Brad Fitzpatrick, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
• Instead, the team concluded that hydrostatic pressure inside the dendrite creates enough tensile stress to fracture the electrolyte.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
• Our engineers single out the hydrostatic transmission, which allows for a smooth ride and offers cruise control for easily maintaining a set speed.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022
• That rating comes from the hydrostatic head pressure test—also known as the water column test—which assesses how waterproof a fabric is by using high pressure to push water through.
  — Adam Trenkamp, Outside, 27 Dec. 2025
• There are enormous numbers of small bodies, from tiny moonlets to asteroids to comets and more, that simply aren’t massive enough to pull themselves into hydrostatic equilibrium.
  — Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
• The new technique employed is to apply hydrostatic (uniform) pressure to this stack of layered 2D materials.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2018
• Thankfully, the Sun is easily able to compensate for this, and that compensation comes about through a bit of physics known as hydrostatic equilibrium.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• Octopuses do not have bones, relying instead on a soft, muscular structure supported by a hydrostatic system.
  — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
• Team Northeastern won third place and $1 million using a hydrostatic force-feedback interface for the operator.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
• Octopuses have no bones at all, relying instead on a soft, muscular structure supported by an internal hydrostatic system.
  — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
• There could be as many as ~1017 icy, round objects in hydrostatic equilibrium in the Milky Way galaxy alone, most of which are likely not bound to a parent star at all.
  — Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
• Our contribution was using these diaphragms in a hydrostatic configuration, driven manually or with electric motors, rather than pumps and valves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2016
• The violent expansion seen in videos of bullets striking and passing through gel blocks demonstrates the massive energy transfer associated with hydrostatic shock.
  — Brad Fitzpatrick, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
• The robotic limbs are similar in weight to human limbs, and are strong and fast thanks to magnetorheological clutches that feed pressurized water through a hydrostatic transmission system.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2020
• Reducing the weight of ice sheets and glaciers in the Arctic has been found to decrease hydrostatic pressure on subglacial hydrate reservoirs, which can then enhance subglacial flux and methane discharge on the coast, according to the paper.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
• This is powered by either a single cylinder or commercial-duty V twin, and transmissions are either hydrostatic or commercial-duty hydrostatic.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2022
• Azzaretto also believes the hydrostatic current generated by constantly moving water has a beneficial effect on the wine.
  — Korinne Munson, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2021
• The submarine cable-cutting technology relies on an electro-hydrostatic actuator consisting of a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, and a control unit.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026