stillness

Example Sentences

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But he was sympathetic to the crowd’s inertia: “The stillness isn’t apathy,” Skybetter added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Shattering the stillness of a winter morning, the car’s cold-start cycling sounds like someone is docking a PT boat at the curb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Claude, a rare albino alligator whose ghostly white scales and statue-like stillness earned him a cult-like following around the world, died Tuesday, according to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

It’s a different kind of shot, even in a film that uses silence and stillness more markedly than the first.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The swamp’s stillness was disturbed only by the croaking of a frog and the splash as it leaped into a puddle nearby.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack