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

His descriptions convey with equal force the stillness of the forest, the mute hostility of a marriage, the ardent impulses of youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

It’s a different kind of shot, even in a film that uses silence and stillness more markedly than the first.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The experience of doing nothing crept up on me this summer, surrounded by the stillness and quiet of our family cabin in southwestern Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There, as she wept and trembled, a soft breath of air came through the stillness to her, the gentle breathing of Zephyr, sweetest and mildest of winds.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton