motionless
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She added that staff "had their backs to her while she just laid there for over a minute, completely motionless".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Pointing at a calf lying motionless in a green field in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, farmer Igsahn Felix let out a heavy sigh.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
For the giant is motionless, and its chest is pierced with an ominous spear that rises 3,000 feet into the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
The cub was found sitting, motionless, in the middle of Hillcrest Parkway near Olympic Street in Castaic just before 1 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
His face was motionless as a black mask except for the slow, wide flutters of his nostrils with each breath.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Vocabulary lists containing motionless
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