natural state
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
But an authoritarian government is neither a natural state nor an inevitability.
From Slate • Sep. 27, 2025
It’s about the belief that hierarchy, submission and obedience are the natural state of the world.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025
It was painted white to protect the wood, but decades of Antarctic weather have returned it to its natural state.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024
To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
