stillness

Example Sentences

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And on Tuesdays, when Apam observes a long-standing spiritual tradition and no-one goes out to fish, the town falls into an unusual stillness, the Atlantic rolling quietly in the background.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

With a far-seeing stillness, Kani’s Sam does more than endure.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The 17th-century painter’s depiction of the biblical figure, who has left behind her life of sin, is a work of entrancing details and pervading stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Here the road becomes a boundary between different ways of moving through — and loving — the same landscape: speed and stillness, noise and silence, crowds and solitude.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

She made it to almost five months before she woke at two a.m. with a terrible stillness in her belly, like the silence after a bell has stopped ringing.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng