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278 examples of Motionless in a sentence

After I parted them with my hands, these otherwise motionless plants would shoot right back to their original positions.
At first I didn't know what to make of this sudden assault, but I was reassured to observe the captain lying motionless beside me.
The Nautilus was motionless.
In the broad electric daylight, an enormous black mass, quite motionless, hung suspended in the midst of the waters.
The Nautilus had just struck a reef, and it remained motionless, listing slightly to port.
As for our craft, it no longer stirred, staying as motionless as if these coral polyps had already walled it in with their indestructible cement.
However, seeing that it stayed motionless, they regained confidence little by little and tried to become more familiar with it.
Its electric equipment had been turned off, and the motionless propeller let it ride with the waves.
For some minutes the captain stood motionless, rooted to the spot contained within the field of his lens.
Was it reentering the motionless strata deep in the sea?
As I mused in this way, trying to establish in my memory every detail of this impressive landscape, Captain Nemo was leaning his elbows on a moss-covered monument, motionless as if petrified in some mute trance.
As for the foregrounds passing before our eyes, they were fantastically carved rocks, forests of trees that had crossed over from the vegetable kingdom into the mineral kingdom, their motionless silhouettes sprawling beneath the waves.
Now then, this second arm--more accurately, a collar--forms a ring of warm water around a section of cool, tranquil, motionless ocean called the Sargasso Sea.
He scaled an overhanging rock that ended in a small promontory and there, mute and motionless, with crossed arms and blazing eyes, he seemed to be laying claim to these southernmost regions.
Meanwhile, motionless and silent, Captain Nemo stood lost in thought.
However, through the windows of our almost motionless Nautilus, I could see nothing among these long filaments other than the chief articulates of the division Brachyura: long-legged spider crabs, violet crabs, and sponge crabs unique to the waters of the Caribbean.
Red with blood, motionless by the beacon, Captain Nemo stared at the sea that had swallowed one of his companions, and large tears streamed from his eyes.
The Nautilus lay motionless, neither rolling nor pitching.
But he wiped his face with one hand and continued motionless, his eyes lowered.
The rain had stopped, day was breaking, and on the branches of the leafless trees birds roosted motionless, their little feathers bristling in the cold morning wind.
Then this, eddying, floating, described semicircles in the air like a bird, and was caught before it reached the ground in the ill-groomed mane of the old white mare standing motionless at the door.
On the large stove of porcelain inlaid with copper baguettes the statue of a woman, draped to the chin, gazed motionless on the room full of life.
He thought he saw a shadow behind the window in the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though no one were touching it, slowly opened its long oblique folds that spread out with a single movement, and thus hung straight and motionless as a plaster wall.
On that day he wore a collar even higher than usual; and, tightly buttoned in his tunic, his figure was so stiff and motionless that the whole vital portion of his person seemed to have descended into his legs, which rose in a cadence of set steps with a single movement.
The firemen at the foot of the platform rested on their bayonets; and Binet, motionless, stood with out-turned elbows, the point of his sabre in the air.
It was the first time that she found herself in the midst of so large a company, and inwardly scared by the flags, the drums, the gentlemen in frock-coats, and the order of the councillor, she stood motionless, not knowing whether to advance or run away, nor why the crowd was pushing her and the jury were smiling at her.
Faded water lilies lay motionless between the reeds.
Charles gazed at her with the dull look of a drunken man, while he listened motionless to the last cries of the sufferer, that followed each other in long-drawn modulations, broken by sharp spasms like the far-off howling of some beast being slaughtered.
Down below, underneath her, the village square was empty; the stones of the pavement glittered, the weathercocks on the houses were motionless.
She lay there stretched at full length, her lips apart, her eyelids closed, her hands open, motionless, and white as a waxen image.
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