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278 examples of Motionless in a sentence

Fifteen nail-makers from the Marchiennes nail works had responded to the appeal, each with a dozen cages; and the gloomy little cages in which the blinded finches sat motionless were already hung upon a paling in the inn yard.
When M. Hennebeau re-entered the dining-room he found his guests motionless and silent before the liqueurs.
The deserted square, obstructed by great motionless shadows, seemed like the corner of an abandoned fortress.
She reopened the door after the young man and closed it violently, leaving the others motionless and mute in the faint light of a candle-end which Alzire had just lighted.
The two children remained motionless for the five minutes without looking round, for fear of receiving a blow from the invisible.
A rumbling arose from them, like that of a storm, in this motionless and frozen forest.
In the nave, still new and clean, the arrested task was waiting; the steam in the engine, under pressure, made slight whistling sounds; the cages were hanging motionless to the cables; the trains, abandoned on the way, were encumbering the metal floors.
Gradually the whole column stopped and became motionless.
Afterwards he went up to the engine, and looked at the crank, which was motionless, like the joint of a colossal limb struck by paralysis.
The abuse increased, while the dead man, stretched on his back, gazed motionless with his large fixed eyes at the immense sky from which the night was falling.
Up above, at the window, Madame Maigrat still stood motionless; but beneath the last gleams of the setting sun, the confused flaws of the window-panes distorted her white face which looked as though it were laughing.
The sentinel remained motionless.
On the summit of the pit-bank Jules stood motionless, with eyes vacantly gazing at the falling snow.
Maheude, who had been motionless and silent up to now, suddenly broke out, and treating him familiarly and swearing like a man, she shouted in his face:"What's that you say?
So Madame Rasseneur, motionless at the counter, preserved an irritated silence; while Rasseneur, standing before the iron fireplace, seemed to be gazing with a reflective air at the brown smoke from the coal.
Catherine was motionless against the wall; only her hands had unconsciously risen to her waist, and with constant fidgeting movements were twisting and tearing at the stuff of her dress.
At the end of two hours she made up her mind, dying of cold and as motionless as a dog thrown into the street.
" These men, who had listened quietly, with motionless mute faces, to the fraternal appeals and the friendly attempts to win them over, preserved the same stiff passivity beneath this hail of abuse.
And at the top of the slope near the entrance to the settlement, old Bonnemort appeared, resting on his stick, motionless against the rust-coloured sky.
They had fired, and the gaping crowd stood motionless, as yet unable to believe it.
Not one of them spoke, many shook their heads, others went away with trailing steps, without changing one line in their motionless faces.
For a moment they remained motionless, then side by side they set out towards Marchiennes.
Maheude sat down again in silence, with motionless face, continuing to wait.
It was a sight of fearful agony, this old beast shattered and motionless, struggling at this depth, far from the daylight.
For a moment he stood by, motionless amid the noise and movement.
More stunned than afraid, we stood mute and motionless.
The narwhale seemed motionless.
Barely twenty feet separated him from the motionless animal.
Consequently, I decided to divide our energies so we wouldn't both be worn out at the same time, and this was the arrangement: while one of us lay on his back, staying motionless with arms crossed and legs outstretched, the other would swim and propel his partner forward.
When I woke up the next day, November 17, I sensed that the Nautilus was completely motionless.
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