stillness
Example Sentences
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Finally on the Olympic stage, Naumov felt nothing but stillness.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 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
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
Within minutes the forest was settled in a great foggy stillness, chill and damp.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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