stillness

Example Sentences

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It also “vibe scented” a horror movie, creating a fragrance, distributed at screenings, that “captures the chilling, damp, metallic stillness of a nightmare that won’t let you escape,” according to the film’s press materials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Finally on the Olympic stage, Naumov felt nothing but stillness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Rather than chasing an expression, I was interested in stillness and repetition; how a simple gesture could feel amplified when echoed across a frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

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

Swimming gave him the chance to move and exercise his body, to uncramp it from the stiffening stillness of sitting with a chessboard or a book.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady