still
Usage
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Still implies that in spite of a preceding concession, something must be considered as possible or even inevitable: We have to go on foot; still (“it is probable and possible that”), we'll get there. Yet implies that in spite of a preceding concession, there is still a chance for a different outcome: We are going; yet (“in spite of all, some day”), we shall return. Nevertheless implies a concession that should not be forgotten in making a summing up: We are going; nevertheless (“do not forget that”), we shall return. But marks an opposition or contrast, though in a casual way: We are going, but we shall return. However indicates a less marked opposition, but displays a second consideration to be compared with the first: We are going; however (“notice this also”), we shall return.
Example Sentences
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The state’s social-services department is pushing merchants to update their payment systems, yet swipe transactions still represent about 40% of all sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Pantoja managed to take Van down to the canvas again and worked from the top for much of the round, showing that he could still trouble the champion when he managed to impose his style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It was odd enough that most people in the crowd were wearing fluorescent orange, but stranger still was this rarity: the sight of a group of diverse men full of hope.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Smile broke up in the spring of 1970 but the group still had a booking to fulfill at Truro City Hall, now known as the Hall for Cornwall.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“We’ve got four hours before sundown. We’re still heading north.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“There was sort of a nervous energy underneath it, bubbling away, even in the stiller moments,” Hemsworth says.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
She’s never sounded deeper or stiller than she does on this tidy parcel of separation songs, singing about disappointment and heartbreak with mysterious composure and anodyne sweetness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
During the 1877 close approach, he left his normal observing spot in his garden near London and traveled to Madeira, Portugal, where the overhead air is stiller and affords sharper views of the faraway planet.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 12, 2021
Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2016
They were on the canal now, which was high itself, but stiller than the river, of course.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
"I'm excited for everyone to see the fruits of their labour, and meet me at my stillest."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
One solution being considered is to build enough extra wind turbines to get a grid through even the stillest winters, and then to use them for most of the year to make hydrogen.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
Buildings—the slowest and stillest of all media—are not.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2019
The stillest person on set is cinematographer Natasha Braier, a slight, intense figure, originally from Buenos Aires.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2016
The old part of the town, fiercely antebellum, rested in the stillest slackwater celebration of itself, in the habiliment of azaleas cutting into shadows with a soft-winged blue, or a deepening ruby.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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