stillness

Example Sentences

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The remote island — some 30 miles southwest of Santa Barbara — is typically quiet, yet the stillness feels almost heavy this sunny afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

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

After the fury of the night before, an unnatural stillness lay on the land.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya