STATIC in a Sentence

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For STATIC, below is one of 12 sentences:
An entire system of mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever envious of the flies and birds.

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 Meanings and Examples of STATIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
static
 a.  having no motion; being at rest; fixed; stationary
Classic Sentence:
1  Whatever she might become she would never be static.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  I mean that the tragic emotion is static.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  An entire system of mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever envious of the flies and birds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
Example Sentence:
1  The population remained more or less static.
2  They were made to listen to white noise, such as static of the sort you might pick up between radio stations.
3  The locomotive is normally kept on static display in the National Railway Museum.
4  Oil prices have remained static for the last few months.
5  Economists predict that house prices will remain static for a long period.
6  The social scientist tends to study events soas to draw conclusions of a more general and rather static kind.
7  Film divides motion up into a series of static images.
8  To claim that the English language will remain static is false.
9  A society which remains in equilibrium is termed static, that which is changing is called dynamic.