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72 examples of Stillness in a sentence

So astronomers in the far future looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness.
And I began to think that really, movement was only as good as the sense of stillness that you could bring to it to put it into perspective.
And I began to think that something in me had really been crying out for stillness, but of course I couldn't hear it because I was running around so much.
The heart fights among the swamps, skirts the edge of the underworld, falls exhausted, but won't give in to what's easy, while irregular steps of intoxication wake up, wake the stillness.
And the deep matters as much as the stillness and the water do.
But mostly, just appreciate that bodies are built for motion, not for stillness.
Anyway, balance: constant movement to find an approach to stillness.
Balance: making up the rules so you can't cheat, so you learn to approach stillness with different parts of your body.
I always had a notebook with me, claiming that it was to jot down ideas in moments of inspiration, but the truth was that I needed to be constantly fidgeting, because in moments of stillness, I found myself counting seconds again.
You can imagine also that movement within a circle could mean movement and stillness, like the cosmos, something you see in many places.
At the source of the longest river the voice of a hidden waterfall not known because not looked for, but heard, half heard in the stillness beneath the waves of the sea."
Dream or not SOMEONE, and the obvious candidate is director Paolo Sorrentino, has created a very watchable world in which Tony Servillo makes stillness a Fine Art.
There is constantly the feeling of great drama even in the occasional moment of stillness.
The stillness was also an attraction, never hurrying, like trees, still and composed.
There also one can find a 'Great Stillness'.
The serene stillness of the Arctic and Antarctic was a perfect match for human indifference.
'He has passed away,' said the priest and turned to go; but suddenly the clammy moustache of the dying man moved and from the depth of his chest through the stillness came his voice, sharp and distinct:'Not quite!...Soon.'
In the translucent stillness of the morning the slightest sounds were audible.
She breathed in the perfumes of the full-blown flowers in the large vases, and listened to the stillness of the church, that only heightened the tumult of her heart.
The square oars rang in the iron thwarts, and, in the stillness, seemed to mark time, like the beating of a metronome, while at the stern the rudder that trailed behind never ceased its gentle splash against the water.
From the dim woods on either bank, Night's ghostly army, the grey shadows, creep out with noiseless tread to chase away the lingering rear- guard of the light, and pass, with noiseless, unseen feet, above the waving river-grass, and through the sighing rushes; and Night, upon her sombre throne, folds her black wings above the darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars, reigns in stillness.
We feel so helpless and so little in the great stillness, when the dark trees rustle in the night-wind.
Then, across the evening stillness, broke a blood-curdling yelp, and Montmorency left the boat, and did a constitutional three times round the island at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, stopping every now and then to bury his nose in a bit of cool mud.
Dorchester is a delightfully peaceful old place, nestling in stillness and silence and drowsiness.
And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back to their real and natural state.
The last sounds of the combat died on the ears of the anxious listeners in the cottage, and were succeeded by the stillness of suspense.
The tumult, which so lately disturbed the valley, was succeeded by the stillness of death, and the fair scene before her looked as if it had never been marred by the passions of men.
Master Popgun - ""Peace!" said Dunwoodie, in a voice that was exerted but a little more than common, but which was succeeded by the stillness of death.
The first words of this imposing office produced a dead stillness in the apartment; and the minister of God proceeded to the solemn exhortation, and witnessed the plighted troth of the parties, when the investiture was to follow.
The stillness of death pervaded the road, nor was there a single vestige of the scenes of the night, to tarnish the loveliness of a glorious morn.
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