How to Use static in a Sentence

static

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• This has not changed, as the static gender gap in voter turnout in 2024 shows.
  — Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
• Others viewed a static wide-angle shot of the full bench from a distance.
  — Ryan Black, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
• The problem was that the guide was static, while the robot is dynamic, Ansari said.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 5 Dec. 2022
• This is a very talky show—the actors’ bodies are mostly static, and the dance is in the parrying of their ideas.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Think a blurred car driving across a static city landscape.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2024
• Which means the music, like her mood, refuses to be static.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• During these hours, the televisions on the walls showcase a static image, the radio is turned off, and the lights are dimmed.
  — Sonia Thompson, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But three minutes in, a rising tide of static overtakes the music.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• When the words came to sonic life, Wilson crafted verse melodies with long, held notes at the end of the lines, strung across a static, tonic E chord.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2022
• Nine days later, the 33-engine Super Heavy booster fired up on the launch pad for its own static fire test.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
• Since then, the battle lines have been largely static on the outskirts of Kreminna, a strategic city in the Luhansk region.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• The new study shows how moisture in espresso beans affects static charge builds up and how it can be altered.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2023
• During this time, lights in the stores will be dimmed, radios will be turned off and moving images on screens will be changed to static ones.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2023
• The vigorous choral writing—both hymn-singing and mob frenzy—is static, and many of the arias are tuneful but shapeless.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• This static game of cat and mouse will play out several times past several checkpoints on the route.
  — David Culver, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• This means the thought of floating down the Rhine on a 12-day river cruise while locked in with a static set of human beings has all the makings of me losing my mind.
  — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• Despite the static rank, the song added 2% in weekly audience to reach 6.6 million in the latest tracking week.
  — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2023
• Another plus is that the material isn't static-y and repels dog hair for the most part!
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 21 Mar. 2023
• The defending team used a static image with the sole purpose of intercepting the ball.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2023
• The temperature will stay static all day, with a high of about 48 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
• The measurements are not static and could change depending on how the rest of the wet season develops.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• Designers have some freedom with the hull and sail shape, but everyone has to use the same design of masts, booms, and static rigging.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
• Many concepts are static models, but Mercedes-Benz built one that works.
  — Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2022
• Leaving static text or a still image sitting on the screen draws almost no power at all.
  — PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
• Yet models that predict the future state of these glaciers assume that grounding lines are static.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• The conference could get stronger or weaker but is unlikely to remain static in membership by the turn of the decade.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• That’s going to mean no in-store radio, lower light settings where possible, and the stores’ TV wall changed to a static image.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
• But because the world continues to burn fossil fuels, the climate isn’t static.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
• First, there's the static frictional force, which is the case when the two surfaces are stationary relative to each other.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023

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static

2 of 2 noun

• There was so much static on the radio we couldn't hear the broadcast.
• He was getting a lot of static about his decision.
• 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
• The sheets were very soft, and the tester noted that there wasn’t any static.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• White noise Sounds like: The static of a TV or radio, or the whir of a fan.
  — Stacey Colino, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• And then Solomon too heard the static, and the white glare of her eyes blinded his own, and the voice was drowned in silence.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Our only complaint is that grinds stick to the sides of the container due to the static.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
• The soft cream will add fullness to your curls and will reduce static and frizz.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
• In the past few months, the picture of late night has become covered in static.
  — Bill Carter, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
• The video images were ghostly, and the audio was filled with static.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
• Just like static on a phone line, brain signals can be noisy.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
• It should be hung to dry to avoid shrinking and building static, though.
  — Carly Kulzer, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Your best friend in fighting static may be in your laundry room.
  — Catharine Malzahn, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
• Hugh has finally found a jazz station, and managed to tune out the static.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• Even as the radio feed became buried by a roar of static, Schonely’s voice seemed to cut through at the biggest moments.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
• The result, in this case, was hard to make out; the black-and-white image reminded me of television static.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Dip dip dip, the code repeats, before fading once again, absorbed by a whoosh of static.
  — Cathy Alter, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2023
• According to the researchers, adding a spritz of water to the beans before grinding cuts static.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The picture on the screen was fuzzy and the sound wasn’t working, but the images permeated the static: Two planes had crashed into the sides of skyscrapers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• Her theatrical wail cut through the static on radios across Britain.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2022
• Does Allen keep his defense static, leaving Pierre to deal with Palmer when he’s lined up inside?
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022
• His voice is grim and clipped, even through the international static of our call.
  — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• For three months the telescope scanned its targets and found nothing more than cosmic static.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 19 June 2020
• Duke did take a sleeping pill the first night but woke up twice from errant master alarms and once from static in his earpiece.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2017
• The sheets work hard to not only minimize wrinkles and static but also add a fresh, clean scent.
  — Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2023
• While some of the work is insightful, the static, point-in-time, nature of the analysis is limiting.
  — Michael Molnar, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Sculpture and dance can seem somewhat at odds — one static and fixed, the other fluid and shifting.
  — Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Even the record feels raw and simple, opening with Al Green-adjacent guitar plucks and the static that plays when putting a needle on top of a vinyl record.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022

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