motionless
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Suddenly motionless, she faces the camera with her hands over her eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
When he zoomed in with his camera, he realized the motionless ants were covered with tiny cone ants.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
Hidden in plain sight, an ambush bug nymph waits motionless inside a flower in Michigan.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Sharpe tumbled during her second run, losing her skis and poles and lying motionless on the snow.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing motionless
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 4
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"The Woman in the Snow" and "Rosa Parks"
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English Language Development Texts, Unit 2
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