Thesaurus / stillness
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The scenery is very impressive, but the stillness and the quiet — that is what stayed with me.
TIPS FOR VISITING U.S. NATIONAL PARKS FROM SOMEONE WHO VISITED THEM ALLANDREA SACHSDECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Four times each week, local meditation teachers offer 30 minutes of stillness and peace.
THE BEST THINGS TO DO — VIRTUALLY AND IN PERSON — WHILE SOCIAL DISTANCING IN THE D.C. AREAFRITZ HAHN, HAU CHUNOVEMBER 12, 2020WASHINGTON POST
In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
The wind dropped just at that moment and the doctor's words rang sharply through the stillness.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOOD
At length, a low cry of pain broke the stillness that prevailed, and uttering it, the boy awoke.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENS
She had no idea of the time, but because of the stillness of the surrounding streets she knew that it must be very late.
DOPESAX ROHMER
They had no power of attention even to a story, and the stillness was irksome to such wild colts.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
The stillness lasted for some moments, and was first broken by Flora, as if she had caught at a probability.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
Then out of the stillness a bird's note fell through the jungle and there was a gleam of whiteness.
KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJI
She grew frightened at Tessas stillness; there was not one sympathetic line in the stern curving of her lips.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATER
WORDS RELATED TO STILLNESS
- blackout
- calm
- censorship
- dead air
- death
- dumbness
- hush
- hush-hush
- inarticulateness
- iron curtain
- laconism
- lull
- muteness
- noiselessness
- peace
- quiescence
- quiet
- quietude
- quietus
- reserve
- reticence
- saturninity
- secrecy
- sleep
- soundlessness
- speechlessness
- still
- stillness
- sulk
- sullenness
- taciturnity
- uncommunicativeness
- break
- breather
- breathing space
- calm
- calmness
- cessation
- coffee break
- comfort
- composure
- cutoff
- downtime
- doze
- dreaminess
- ease
- forty winks
- halt
- holiday
- hush
- idleness
- interlude
- intermission
- interval
- leisure
- letup
- lull
- motionlessness
- nap
- pause
- peace
- quiescence
- quiet
- quietude
- recess
- recreation
- refreshment
- relaxation
- relief
- repose
- respite
- siesta
- silence
- sleep
- slumber
- somnolence
- standstill
- stay
- stillness
- stop
- time off
- tranquillity
- vacation
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