stillness

Example Sentences

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Tamma is trying to find the emotional stillness to deal with a dysfunctional family that makes plenty of demands but offers little support.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

"Even in the coldest, darkest season, winter has a way of bringing us stillness, patience and quiet consideration," said Catherine.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

But he was sympathetic to the crowd’s inertia: “The stillness isn’t apathy,” Skybetter added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Claude, a rare albino alligator whose ghostly white scales and statue-like stillness earned him a cult-like following around the world, died Tuesday, according to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

As I pedaled my bike down El Indio Highway in the stillness of the dark summer night, I could feel the magical power of the roses propelling me toward the Rio Grande.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall