stillness
Example Sentences
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Here the road becomes a boundary between different ways of moving through — and loving — the same landscape: speed and stillness, noise and silence, crowds and solitude.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
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
Shattering the stillness of a winter morning, the car’s cold-start cycling sounds like someone is docking a PT boat at the curb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
We just lay there, spooned together, holding on as if stillness could save us.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
Whatever had moved had gone still again: but it was a horrible, waiting stillness.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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