motionless

Example Sentences

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Reducing McCullum's coaching to its most recognisable image - feet up, sunglasses in place, watching motionless from a balcony somewhere in the world - would always be wrong.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

People lie on the sidewalk or stand hunched over and motionless.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Many of those who stood, motionless, overlooking the scene of the tragedy, knew people who remain unaccounted for, or were badly injured.

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

These motionless atoms have a major effect on how a liquid turns into a solid, including the creation of an unusual state of matter known as a corralled supercooled liquid.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

All the women, or rather the witches, were now sitting motionless in their chairs and staring as though hypnotised at somebody who had suddenly appeared on the platform.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl