still life

Example Sentences

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Yet still, life went on in Etzatlán, until the sense of tranquility was shattered.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Lutnick’s testimony this past week, like Bondi’s, is thus operating as a still life in what happens when the law becomes inert.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

I don’t consider Klee—sui generis—to be a Surrealist, but “Fish Magic,” merging aquarium, children’s art, still life, cosmos and landscape, is the quintessential portrait of a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "still life".

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024

The final project was a still life with all these objects in it as well as a small hunk of plastic ham.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez