unstirring

Example Sentences

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Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

He was still bent over staring with one eye into the lightless, unstirring void of the soldier in white’s mouth when the doctors and the M.P.s came running to help Yossarian pull him away.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

There he lay, scarce drawing breath, unstirring, deathly spent.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The third lay huddled in his front corner unstirring, and nobody saw to it that he got his share.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Her swoon must have passed imperceptibly into the heavy sleep of emotional exhaustion, for she lay unstirring for some hours.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston