still
Usage
What are other ways to say still?
Still implies that in spite of a preceding concession, something must be considered as possible or even inevitable: We have to go on foot; still (“it is probable and possible that”), we'll get there. Yet implies that in spite of a preceding concession, there is still a chance for a different outcome: We are going; yet (“in spite of all, some day”), we shall return. Nevertheless implies a concession that should not be forgotten in making a summing up: We are going; nevertheless (“do not forget that”), we shall return. But marks an opposition or contrast, though in a casual way: We are going, but we shall return. However indicates a less marked opposition, but displays a second consideration to be compared with the first: We are going; however (“notice this also”), we shall return.
Example Sentences
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As of last month, the federal government is still attempting to learn Tired_Thumb’s identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The question remains if anyone is still listening.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
But companies still need to pass those costs onto their own customers.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I still can’t believe that we did it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
She still tests positive for leprosy, but she feels well, and that’s good enough for now.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“There was sort of a nervous energy underneath it, bubbling away, even in the stiller moments,” Hemsworth says.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
She’s never sounded deeper or stiller than she does on this tidy parcel of separation songs, singing about disappointment and heartbreak with mysterious composure and anodyne sweetness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
During the 1877 close approach, he left his normal observing spot in his garden near London and traveled to Madeira, Portugal, where the overhead air is stiller and affords sharper views of the faraway planet.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 12, 2021
Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2016
Matty heard him recite: Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
"I'm excited for everyone to see the fruits of their labour, and meet me at my stillest."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
One solution being considered is to build enough extra wind turbines to get a grid through even the stillest winters, and then to use them for most of the year to make hydrogen.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
Buildings—the slowest and stillest of all media—are not.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2019
The stillest person on set is cinematographer Natasha Braier, a slight, intense figure, originally from Buenos Aires.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2016
In the stillest hour of the night, the children finally slept, their thin chests barely rising and falling.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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