still life

Example Sentences

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Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

I don’t consider Klee—sui generis—to be a Surrealist, but “Fish Magic,” merging aquarium, children’s art, still life, cosmos and landscape, is the quintessential portrait of a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Mexican cuisine comfort soup recipes inspired by the menudo still life at the newly reopened Hilbert Museum of California Art.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Ms Pepin disagreed, claiming there was "still life left in it".

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

It’s a still life with an open Bible, a novel, and some extinguished candles.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman