stillness

Example Sentences

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Tamma is trying to find the emotional stillness to deal with a dysfunctional family that makes plenty of demands but offers little support.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

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

His descriptions convey with equal force the stillness of the forest, the mute hostility of a marriage, the ardent impulses of youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

We just lay there, spooned together, holding on as if stillness could save us.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

For some time I stay in bed without moving, in the absolute and holy stillness.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads