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How To Use stationary In A Sentence

• I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit. Great voices of science fiction
• The ambatch float remained perfectly stationary upon the surface.
• It's customary to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open.
• He says the crossing patrol has poor visibility because of parked cars and the lollipop lady has to weave in between stationary vehicles.
• The car collided with a stationary vehicle.
• There is an appearance of convergency — of a new approach to a stationary condition. The Coal Question~ Of the Growth and Migrations of our Population
• Today, the frontier of private enterprise is the halo of communications satellites in geostationary orbit 24,000 miles above our planet. Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon | Impact Lab
• As an econometrician I have my doubts about the ratio of a non-stationary quantity and a stationary one.
• The comparison of newly formed polyploids with their haploid progenitors has revealed that nascent polyploids have a defect in stationary-phase viability.
• For this island whereon ye stand is no true island, but a great fish stationary a-middlemost of the sea, whereon the sand hath settled and trees have sprung up of old time, so that it is become like unto an island; 8 but, when ye lighted fires on it, it felt the heat and moved; and in a moment it will sink with you into the sea and ye will all be drowned. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night