lie still
Example Sentences
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Her baby's head was stuck and she was just told to lie still during labour, which lasted three days.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025
If the animal does knock you down, however, “curl into a ball, protect your head, and lie still until the moose retreats,” the Utah authorities advise.
From National Geographic • Aug. 17, 2023
Mendoza’s colleagues in their written statements reported that Churna, even after she was face-down on the ground, continued to squirm and lift her torso despite officers’ repeated commands that she lie still.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Shaokat’s secrets are lies of another magnitude from his young daughter’s fiction; another character must learn to stop living a lie; still another will have to acknowledge trauma before being able to tell the truth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2022
There, by the light of the rocket I see something move in the wire, then it stiffens and I lie still.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
