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How to use stock-still in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word stock-still? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Instead, they stood stock-still, staring at something in the woods a short distance away.
I desperately tried to hold my breath, to stay stock-still and make as little noise as I could.
Even if the property market were to stand stock-still for years, you're better off owning your own home and paying off the mortgage.
I was standing stock-still, up to my waist in motionless water, in a deep cavern, totally blind.
For a moment she stood stock-still and appeared to be sizing up the situation mentally.
Even when her mother had come out and ranted about his rudeness and audacity, she stood stock-still.
He bowed as well as he could in the crowded atmosphere and left her, standing stock-still in surprise.
People stood stock-still and simply orated, their arms firmly bolted to their sides.
The girl instantly ceased her movement, standing stock-still as she turned blazing eyes on Chris.
I caught a quick glimpse of Abby in the room, sitting stock-still, no movement apparent.
Gawain stood stock-still and looked at him hard, properly, for the first time.
Sam dropped her hands from my shoulders and stood stock-still.
They may or may not have noticed the performers, standing stock-still and scattered throughout the room, whom they had to pass by in order to get to their seats.
Coming out of the building one evening, at the edge of the lawn: Charly standing stock-still in the dark.
And as the witness began to openly weep, his sobs filled the stock-still courtroom.
There were some people standing stock-still a few feet from the tent.
But look closely at those stock-still appendages.
The squadron of male models were as stock-still as Beefeaters.
They sat stock-still on the hardwood benches of the dank, makeshift cinema in Monrovia.
In the cadaverous white mist the herons stood stock-still, like clay Kermis figurines.
Examples from Classical Literature
We gaped at the stock-still brick facade of an old church, against which the waves of people lurch and withdraw.
I stood, I know not how long, stock-still in the place where I had read that letter.
I stood for a while stock-still, and then went into the living-room, where Maude was sewing.
The colour fell from their faces, and for a second they stood dumb and stock-still.
As soon as he landed, he sat down, stock-still, and checked the instrument case he held in his hands.
The sergeant slapped his thigh and was turning for congratulations, but suddenly paused, stock-still and staring upward.
All around me the black fir-points stood upright and stock-still.
By and by, they peeped out and saw that King Log was stock-still.
Was, for example, Epic, with Paul Taylor standing stock-still in a business suit at that now notorious 1957 concert, dance without dancing?
We all stood stock-still for a minute, like folks in a tableau.
Mr. Withells stood stock-still where he was, in pained astonishment.
To Danbury it seemed as though they had stopped stock-still.
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