deathly still
Example Sentences
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Alligators generally hug the shores at night, their reptilian bodies hidden beneath the murky surface, often deathly still.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2015
Eastward stretches a no-man’s land where once fertile fields lie desolate and deathly still.
From Time • Nov. 7, 2014
Thorus remained deathly still as he frantically searched his pocket for the laser gun.
From Nature • Apr. 2, 2014
The chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call.
From Time Magazine Archive
The woods were deathly still, more forbidding than I had ever seen them—green and black and stagnant, dark with the smells of mud and rot.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
