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Sentence Examples I couldn't explain the momentary stillness inside of me, or the rush of nameless emotions that followed. The waters of Loch an Eilean were flat calm and the stillness of the air almost eerie. A chorus of high-pitched wolf howls pierces the stillness of a frigid January morning. This metaphor represents the miracle of creation, bringing the world into being as a multiplicity out of the stillness of an unstirred sleep. About half an hour later we had another quiet dinner, the soft clank of utensils the only sound in the stillness. A horrible yowling sound rent the air, a cacophony of dissonant notes in the cool morning stillness. Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness. The bell chimed out, its sharp sound a contrast to the stillness as the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat rolled in the gentle swell. The Olympic stadium follows a rise-and-fall pattern of stillness and intense activity. If you are outside when it starts playing you stop everything and show obeisance in your stillness. Then you wait for a few moments, silently marvelling at the beautiful starry night and the almost magical stillness. The songs, which are settings of John Clare, deal with stillness, and supernally dazzling summers. Sometimes at the close of day, when the lights have been dimmed, I sit in the stillness. Walking up the gravel path feels like the approach to some kind of altar, the scrunching stones disturbing in the stillness. His carefully balanced compositions often create an island of stillness, a moment of revelatory quiet amid the modern churnings. They prefer a mongrel vitality to a purebred stillness, a jumbled collage to a more settled composition. A gentle and lyrical andantino in triple time with a lilting rhythm and an emotional central section ended intimately, in stillness. A leaden stillness descended and slowed their legs, but sight traveled in reverse and was quickened. But the most important thing really is to quiet your internal dialogue and experience the stillness that's in you. All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch. Show More Sentences The trees were rimed with frost and there was a stillness over the land that only came with extreme cold. What he remembers most was the stillness of the dressing-room and, later, the cheerless evening he spent at his hotel in Newport. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. Key experiences afterwards are degrees of intense inner stillness and to a lesser extent joy in simply being. The organic roughness of his shaky tones periodically overwhelms and drowns out the impassive stillness of his collaborator. For all its piteousness, his first feature is often moving, always well acted, and distinguished by rare stillness and beauty. They desire a stillness and immobility they can never attain, for the activity of the world never ceases. The stillness was abruptly shattered by a loud alarm call from a sambar deer. Electronics and haunting effects bring an empyrean stillness to the album's middle third. The stillness and quiet of the night made the place seem almost reverent, as if something long ago had happened here. Scraping the ice off their cars, they travel along deserted roads, through the eerie, wintry stillness. Like a ballet dancer on pointe, stillness is part of the lead up to falling. Her very immobility, her stillness in a world running after vanity, makes her a heroine. A cocoon of silence and stillness surrounded them as the sleigh cut thorough the snow. He was frightened to move unless he disturbed the stillness, unless he shattered its delicate fragility. The stillness of the scene was suddenly disrupted when a scrawny dog ran into view. The eerie stillness of the music and voice reflects the pensive, self-critical nature of the lyric. What the ex-policeman takes for boredom, though, is the stillness of a serpent as its cloven tongue tastes the scent in the breeze. Any living thing which brought life and movement to stir the sullen stillness of it all would be silenced. The wild, syncopated patterns of the surrounding painting become giant frames which counterpoint the stillness of the images. Show More Sentences In my memory there is a stillness, a quietness about her that I can still feel, that is almost visible, even in the distance of many years. One of the beauties of English is that it has available a practice which seems to conflate movement and stillness, unfolding and accomplishment. I remember waking to fresh falls of snow, the muffled stillness, and the sense of a world transformed. The more we can restore innate natural poise the more we can enjoy physical harmony in activity, and in stillness. In that stillness, the vastness of the energy touched deep seeds of consciousness in them as they trusted me with their confidences and secrets. When the small human cast disappears for the afternoon siesta, all is stillness and peace. Occasionally I come across someone who has an extraordinary inner serenity, a real stillness and peacefulness. Then there came a moment, I believe it was in the dead of night, and in the blessed stillness I found solace. Permanently in motion, he seemed to fear what he might discover in the calm stillness of introspection. After the artist's eerily long period of absolute stillness, an assistant unburies him with urgent, rescuelike speed and efficiency. Boisterous crowds dispelled the darkness of night with fireworks as crackers shattered the stillness of the night. A sudden blast of discordant horns shattered the stillness that had settled over the killing fields. He rolled over completely, pressed his face into the soft pillow, and allowed the stillness of sleep to take over. Here one could relish plateaus of stillness before the onset of bristling counterpoint and passagework in the finale. Perhaps he's still less at home with movement than he is with stillness. Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to. The stillness and the quietness of the house is excruciating. Until the threshold of 270 was crossed, the stillness of the clammy night continued to hang over the city. There is a stillness in the early hours that feels to me the clearest, healthiest drug humanly available. A metallic roar cuts through the stillness, and out of the murk further up the valley a gigantic shape rears, an uprooted sapling clutched in its metal talons. Show More Sentences Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads. From the height of urban iniquity we move to the ultimate city stillness. They gather and sleep in open fields, surrounded by nature and the stillness of the night. The problem is that many of us cannot find this place of inner peace and stillness, and so the sacred is lost in an overwhelming avalanche of noise and confusion. The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook. Another voice rang out, startlingly loud in the tense stillness. It pauses the careening jumble of events to carve out moments of stillness. It is by this repeated practice that one becomes more accustomed to the subtle mechanics of the mind and more familiar and intimate with the experience of stillness. Slowly I progress on my downward spiral, but am saved from sinking completely into the mire of self-recrimination by the jolting reality of sudden stillness. Finally, the woman broke the stillness as the edges of the cloak parted. Dressed in his gray suit, he sat in stillness as the noxious fumes billowed into the cabin of his blue Chevy Chevelle. The sea itself seemed to resist clarity as much as complete stillness, as though its heart were restless, unquiet, pitted by its very nature against all that was unchanging. In the stillness we could hear goats browsing under the stripped vines. From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing. She has a very quiet voice, and it was only due to the extreme stillness of the night combined with the fact that she was mewing without cease that I heard her at all. It has pairs of large moody mandalas on each wall that loom and seem to spin, exuding a strong energy that creates an extraordinary zone of centeredness, stillness and power. Think of the bird chatter at sunrise, of the stillness at high noon. His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth. Streets that seem like collages brought to life, full of strange incongruities that could only seem natural in the sedatory stillness of the suburb. This general trajectory of life moves from the fluidity and possibility associated with birth to the stillness and finality of death and ancestorhood. Show More Sentences Warren can do stillness, tension, passion, intensity and sentimentality. And outside only a bird's mournful cry broke the stillness of the timeless, winding country lanes and mile upon rolling mile of flat farm land fringed by the sea. In the depth of the forest the primeval stillness was a bit awesome until a family of wild piglets moved in and started to root reassuringly through the chestnuts at my feet. Its precise pacing, composition and camera movement and the minimalist yet powerful soundtrack reverberates and emanates a mood of incredible mystery and stillness. By the time she reaches the famous signature song, she is dressed in an elegant evening gown and her girlish energy has become the stillness of despair and bitterness. Adam threw away the dregs of his coffee and turned back to the house as the sound of Joseph's laugh trickled like sweet music through the stillness. In the beginning, when we entered the room for the first morning sit, we might sense the utter stillness of the place, before dropping into our habitual world of thoughts. In the stillness, a movement at the end of her bed commands her attention. Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness. The Kinematograph lends the observed objects the agitation of their movement, the stillness of the gaze seems more important. The soft sounds of retching filtered back into the black stillness. Then in a moment of stillness, I slide off my high horse into an entrechat six, feeling ebullient. A digital detox is a dedicated time each day where we disconnect from technology and indulge in the stillness that follows. Early morning out on the patio, a hummingbird dodges between vigas, the buzzing beat of its wings the only sound to break the stillness. Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts. But in his stillness he has become the god he always wanted to be. Walk the pontoon bridge across the crystal clear Cahow Lake and enjoy the otherworldly stillness. Unlike his other works, such as his portraits which represent the stillness of his subject, these collages show the movement of his subjects. Moss is thought to add a sense of calm, age, and stillness to a garden scene. It is a stillness or solitude that is wordlessness before God. Show More Sentences In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts. A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen. Flory reached across and took her other hand. It came yieldingly, willingly. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Writing poetry requires inner stillness. Rui Horta's Container saw the six-strong cast interchanging mad dashes with stillness, group dynamics with isolation and tenderness with confrontation. They sat in the shade of the pole and brush ramada in front of the place and sipped their drinks and looked out at the desolate stillness of the little crossroads at noon. But the stillness of Arbus's still reins in the movingness of the movie, bringing it back to earth, to the pensiveness and the irremediable pastness of the photograph. Examples from Classical Literature He leaned from the window and the skirl of a police whistle split the stillness of the night. Snores and the occasional violent whizz of an overwound toy were all that broke the stillness. She even thought that she could hear his steps upon the daunting stillness. He ended the anthem, as he had commenced it, in the midst of a grave and solemn stillness. The intense stillness was broken only by the leap of maska-longe on the distant bars and the rubbing of elbows in the ferny brake. No sound broke the stillness save the far-off bark of a dog or an occasional croak from a bullfrog. A faint knock of oarlock was the only sound that disturbed the grave-like stillness. And in the stillness you could hear the buzz of the motor and the yells of Augustus. If a sharp crash breaks the awful stillness of a mountain night, the trapper is unalarmed. I was an automaton turning a crank in the frozen stillness of the long, long night. After that grinding, terrible cry, the stillness of the night was unstirred. For more than an hour, there was perfect stillness, as the shades of evening deepened. When the twangling notes died away in the distance they had served only to intensify the stillness. The stillness of the evening and the pureness of the air made a silent accompaniment to Gerda's beautiful voice. The stillness was so great, that even the twittering of the whiskey-johneesh, or cinereous crow, caused us to start. When he came to, as if from sleep, he seemed to be sitting in a timeless stillness. The silken frou-frou of their skirts and the tinkling of their bangled bracelets broke the stillness. Both me and Sister Hilda-Antony felt there was a strange and awful stillness and solemnness about the place. Then stillness, and solidity, and the blackness of the Pit outside the Med Ship. Again there was a long period of stillness, broken only by the hubble-bubble. Show More Sentences The tick, tick of the watch was just audible in the stillness of the May morning. The creak of saddle leather and the clop clop of her horses hoofs were all the sounds that disturbed the stillness. We were now alone in the silent house, and there was a Sabbatical stillness all around. He listened in a stillness of dread which resembled the immobility of profound attention. The systolic stillness of the heart is also removed by substances which paralyse the heart, as delphinin, saponin, and apomorphin. The gentle stillness of a rare spring morning enveloped him with its benison. The stillness of things was disturbed by a bird coming to the streamlet to drink. The night was dark and the stillness of summer rested over the Pas-de-Calais. The stillness of just-before-dawn was broken by the distant rumble of an internal-combustion engine. It is all before me, even the summer stillness in which my senses were wrapt. The distant rumble of a train on the intramural, or a quack from a sleepy duck among the rushes, alone broke the stillness. The stillness of night and the shimmering moonlight are in the delicate harmonies of strings. In April the mating season would be over and the birds silent, a brooding stillness possess an efflorescent Eden. A deep coughing sound troubled the stillness, way toward a wooded cape that jetted into the stream a mile distant. There was a tense stillness which jarred in an extraordinary degree. The fire yawned audibly, and plopped a coal into the stillness. But this only appeared to accentuate the profound stillness. Their accoutrements clattered and clinked in the intense stillness. Only the grating of Mr. Amherst's bits of china mars the stillness. He was afraid of the blanketing, saturating weight of the stillness. Show More Sentences The stillness beat as before, like a thing with feathery wings. A great over-heated stillness enveloped the ship and seemed to hold her motionless in a flaming ambience composed in two shades of blue. And Cally Heth stood alone in the more than churchly stillness. The Sunday stillness both of the approaches and of the interior, in which I met no one, fairly excited me with a sense of opportunity. Desnoyers was silent, too, construing her stillness as assent. It was like the stillness and the death that brood over the Dead Sea. The hall wore its deaf-and-dumb air, its black-and-white stillness. A murmuring, then a laugh, cut through the deathlike stillness. But no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the desert night. The first thing that struck her was the deathlike stillness of the room. Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him Requin. The Sabbath of eternity has shed its stillness along the street. They stood shoulder to shoulder in the scented stillness of the night. The drip of the fog from the eaves was the only break in the stillness. The rest yielded to Miss Ophelia's urgent representations, that their master's safety depended on their stillness and obedience. Sunday, March 12th, was a day of Sabbath stillness in Fayetteville. The hideous stillness of Fillmore Street was driving Janet mad. There was stillness in the flowery region just above the Colonel's head. A weird, dreamy stillness had fallen on the purple earth, the dark fir woods, the valley rims, the sere meadows. The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys. Show More Sentences Overhead the sharp scream of a gull cut through the stillness. The melancholy song of a hermit thrush pierced the stillness. The stillness was less intense until the judge put on his black cap, and the chaplain in his canonicals was observed behind him. The word fell like a sledgehammer blow in the stillness of the room. At last, when the darkness and stillness had seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the bell at the gate. The Emperor longed for something to come and relieve the monotony of this deathlike stillness. The stillness that followed was broken only by the Judge's voice. Suddenly the stillness of the night was broken by the sound of a horn. With childish abandon she gave herself over to grief, her voice breaking the evening stillness of the street. The mesa lay basking in the dry, hot stillness of the July afternoon. From the stillness of the woods comes a song, slurred and wavering in the ether, the haunting melody of a Veery, a type of thrush. And a vast stillness reigns, mournful, ominous, unutterably sad. The stillness of lake and shore and wood was so wonderful that he did not go into the villa he lived in. The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness. The present object shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by. The air was of the same biting stillness and vitreous transparency. The stillness of the night was enlivened by millions of waterfowl. For a moment the stillness seemed tangible in its oppressiveness. At that moment, a new sound broke the stillness, the whinny of a horse. The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth with a tiny plop and a short hiss quite audible in the absolute stillness of all things under heaven. Show More Sentences The apparition of this grotesque, half-bestial creature had suddenly populated the stillness of the afternoon for me. Then for a moment there was intense stillness, made horrible by a presage of what was to come. But the stillness upon her face bore to me the shadow of a reproof. And the great stillness after this initiation into the sea's implacable hate seemed full of dread thoughts and shadows of disaster. Class begins with students intoning vowel sounds in stillness from the depths of the pelvis. Among the savages a frightful stillness succeeded the explosion, which had just been heard bursting from the bowels of the rock. The trees and the wind seemed ice-bound, as the water was, and silence, stillness, and starlight, frozen hard, brooded over the country. Now, for the first time, the deep stillness of the place laid a clammy hand upon the spirits of the children. Then, upon this stillness, there suddenly broke a tremendous clangor of sounds. A stillness, more oppressive and intolerable than the previous commotion, began to pervade the house and the surrounding woods. In the stillness we heard him tap out the ashes of his pipe upon a stone. It was followed by a stillness apparently as deep as if the waters had been checked in their furious progress, at such a horrid and unusual interruption. There were now a few minutes of fearful stillness, during which Heyward well knew that the savages conducted their search with greater vigilance and method. The wind and rain had ceased, and the stillness of the night round the schooner was as dumb and complete as if a dead world had been laid to rest in a grave of clouds. What ails you, Polyphemus,' said they, 'that you make such a noise, breaking the stillness of the night, and preventing us from being able to sleep? Gradually all noises diminished, until the suppressed cough denoted that it was necessary to avoid singularity, and the most pro found stillness pervaded the apartment. So we would put in the day, lazying around, listening to the stillness. At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep. Every now and then through the stillness came the sharp crack of a rifle from the snipers lying hidden in the little stretches of woodland and marshland away on the right. Nothing ever arrests its sleepless industry but the coming of a heavy fog, which clothes the teeming stream in a mantle of impenetrable stillness. Show More Sentences She listened to me in perfect stillness and I felt that she was looking at me with great attention, though I could see only the lower part of her bleached and shriveled face. The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. The sun blazed down into a shadowless hollow of colours and stillness. Even now in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire. Presently the thin wavering voice broke the stillness, repeating in a singsong drone the words which for countless ages had sealed the doom of numberless victims. So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house, while nodding Hannah mounted guard at the door. She went back to her room, seeing nothing but her own gliding shadow, hearing nothing but her own stealthy footfall in the midnight stillness of the house. When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of stillness? Words that rhyme with stillness What is the plural of stillness? What is the adverb for stillness? What is the adjective for stillness? What is the noun for stillness? Translations for stillness Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Stillman still-life stilling still-hunt stillhouse stillest stills Stillwater stilly stilt stilted stiltedly 9-letter Words Starting With s st sti stil still stilln stillne stillnes