How to Use static in a Sentence
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Focus your eyes in the dark and watch the static bloom.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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The team has played slow, static, devoid of any ideas.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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Judgment is not a static trait.
—Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
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The product is no longer static.
—Brian Solis, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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It’s not supposed to be static.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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Bodies aren't meant to be static.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
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Those hormones are not static inputs that can be dosed once.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
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These charges aren't static, either.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
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Realize, too, that your tax levy is not static.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 17 Dec. 2025
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The market for health data is not static.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Those new and younger fans don’t want just a static broadcast feed, Roberts says.
—John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
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Replace a static rule with a model.
—Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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This is not a static business model.
—Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026
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But the river has never been static.
—Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
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This is the kind of static bio-play that brings two famous figures to the stage and then stalls out.
—Two Kings, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2022
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Let’s start simple with a static problem.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026
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Others viewed a static wide-angle shot of the full bench from a distance.
—Ryan Black, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
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As the phone starts ringing, the sound of static breaks through, followed by a strange shift in the air.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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When the user moves their eye up, left, or right, this stored static charge moves along with the eyeball.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2026
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The images are static, but that makes them no less breathtaking.
—Chris McMullen, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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Spray some anti-static spray on your microfiber cloth, then wipe down the baseboards.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2026
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Spray some anti-static spray on your microfiber cloth, then wipe down the baseboards.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
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Spray some anti-static spray on your microfiber cloth, then wipe down the baseboards.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
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Financial plans should not be static.
—Bob Chitrathorn, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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What had seemed static now shifted responding to the breeze.
—Carmen F De Terenzio, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
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There was not a payload on that vehicle because this was a static fire test.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 June 2026
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That share could increase if the duties remain static.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
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The cleaning brush creates static allowing pet hair to cling to it and be pulled from seats.
—Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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His static, often distant camera has a trace of coldness to it too.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
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But habeas corpus hasn’t remained static over the centuries.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2026
- There was so much static on the radio we couldn't hear the broadcast.
- He was getting a lot of static about his decision.
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Just like static on a phone line, brain signals can be noisy.
—Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
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Pablum and static on the radio.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
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The sheets were very soft, and the tester noted that there wasn’t any static.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2022
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The chapter, like much of the book, feels like a long climb for a bit of static.
—Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 10 June 2021
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Your best friend in fighting static may be in your laundry room.
—Catharine Malzahn, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
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It should be hung to dry to avoid shrinking and building static, though.
—Carly Kulzer, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
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The soft cream will add fullness to your curls and will reduce static and frizz.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
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Unlike polyester blends, these sheets don’t cling or create static.
—Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Nov. 2025
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The softened fibers repel lint, hair, and static.
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
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When the home team attempts field goals, the video board will have just logos of the teams or show static.
—Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2023
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In the past few months, the picture of late night has become covered in static.
—Bill Carter, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
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And then there's all the stuff about the radio waves and TV static.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
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The video images were ghostly, and the audio was filled with static.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
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The booster static fire was in preparation for that launch.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2026
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At this point, the video cuts off, leaving the screen filled with static and an unpleasant hum.
—Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2022
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Without any static from the world beyond the story.
—Roxane Gay, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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Lina winces at the sound of Jaya munching on an apple, made worse by the static on the line.
—Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
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Our only complaint is that grinds stick to the sides of the container due to the static.
—Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
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Hugh has finally found a jazz station, and managed to tune out the static.
—David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
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The right bud, if jostled, blasted a loud static into my fragile ear drum.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 7 Dec. 2025
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Strange signals from an unknown origin, full of static, pop up on the radio.
—Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
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His voice is grim and clipped, even through the international static of our call.
—Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
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For three months the telescope scanned its targets and found nothing more than cosmic static.
—Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 19 June 2020
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Using Downy dryer sheets to remove static from wavy fur coats.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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Think of it as a kind of static coming from your own optical system rather than the world around you.
—Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
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Dip dip dip, the code repeats, before fading once again, absorbed by a whoosh of static.
—Cathy Alter, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2023
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Her theatrical wail cut through the static on radios across Britain.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2022
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Flipping a switch on the bottom of the lantern turns it from static to interactive mode.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
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