motionless
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“Across the bay the yachts of the city’s rich lingered motionless all summer, never seeming to arrive or depart.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Fuel is unavailable, there are huge queues everywhere," he told AFP from his motionless Toyota sedan after a one-and-a-half hour drive from the capital Ulaanbaatar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The work connects two seemingly opposite descriptions of a single impurity moving through or remaining nearly motionless within a large collection of fermions, a system known as a Fermi sea.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Video footage seen in court showed her lying motionless on the ground with "her face buried in her hands", while another boy was heard shouting words of encouragement.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Lying motionless, I stare at the water stain on the ceiling for so long that it takes on more and more details that make it look like Farooq.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Vocabulary lists containing motionless
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English Language Development Texts, Unit 2
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