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

He instructed Harnett to select from among Abbe’s own possessions for the still life, and Harnett chose objects that reveal the comfortable, cultured aspects of his client’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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

Meaning ostentatious or sumptuous still life, pronkstilleven art became all the rage in the Dutch Republic, both as a social documentation of wealth and a kind of moralistic satire.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024

I am not the only one who tried to follow a path away from the still life, the dining room tables, the half-peeled oranges, and the rucked-up tablecloths.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson