deathly still
Example Sentences
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Alligators generally hug the shores at night, their reptilian bodies hidden beneath the murky surface, often deathly still.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2015
Eastward stretches a no-man’s land where once fertile fields lie desolate and deathly still.
From Time ● Nov. 7, 2014
Thorus remained deathly still as he frantically searched his pocket for the laser gun.
From Nature ● Apr. 2, 2014
He caught his breath, lay deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sky is a cloudless black with no peek of sun in sight, and the neighborhood is deathly still.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
