still life

Example Sentences

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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

And it continues to be popular today, with dramas and TV shows like Traitors showing there is still life in the murder-mystery format.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

The origins of food-focused art date back to 17th and 18th-century Dutch still life paintings, in which food was utilized as “a narrative device,” wrote Elizabeth Goodspeed for the creative platform It’s Nice That.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025

He jumped when the gruff voice said, "Perhaps you did not understand me, Mr. Thatcher. We are drawing still lifes today. In particular, that still life."

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville