natural state

Example Sentences

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I’ve never needed to be told to keep my heart open while watching a film; that’s its natural state.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Even under Justinian law, though, a slave was property, and if freedom was a natural state, it wasn’t necessarily a permanent one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

I’ve met enough artists who say, “I feel totally myself onstage,” to know that there’s a natural state in which people feel comfortable up there.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025

But an authoritarian government is neither a natural state nor an inevitability.

From Slate • Sep. 27, 2025

The natural state of things is coldness, and houses are fragile havens, holdouts in a death landscape, unforgettably comfortable, simple though they are, just because of their warmth.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles