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How to use still in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Still means not moving; calm. Example: “Sit there and stay still!”

Examples of still by meaning

adjectiveNot moving; calm.

  • Sit there and stay still!
  • Still waters run deep.

adjectiveNot effervescing; not sparkling.

  • still water; still wines

adjectiveHaving the same stated quality continuously from a past time.

  • To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.2007 January 3, Gerry Geronimo, “Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia”, in Manila Standard, archived from the original on...

adjectiveDormant.

  • a still spore

adverbWithout motion.

  • They stood still until the guard was out of sight.

adverbUp to a time, as in the preceding time.

  • Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
  • We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum.
  • I’m still not wise enough to answer that.

adverbNevertheless.

  • I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
  • She'd been here many times before, it was true. Still, she held out some hope.

adverbEven, yet.

  • Some dogs howl; more yelp; still more bark.
  • Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4

More sentences with still

  • We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.From the entry hour
  • I’ve heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.From the entry abacus
  • Some of the cast went down with flu, but the show's still on.From the entry on
  • I was trying to drink out of the bottle while the top was still on!From the entry on
  • I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.From the entry clock
  • Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.From the entry bit
  • The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.From the entry be
  • I only qualified as an architect this summer, so I'm still a baby.From the entry baby
  • I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!From the entry Japanese
  • I can't believe you quaffed four pints of beer and could still drive!From the entry quaff
  • 'Where does he work?' — 'I think he's still at the solicitors.'From the entry at
  • I'm still much too young to drive, and my grandpa is already far too old.From the entry too
  • Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.From the entry mind
  • Sushil never took the advice of his parents, but still became rich.From the entry advice
  • I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.From the entry right
  • With his recent divorce still fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his work.From the entry fresh
  • This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.From the entry good
  • I didn't argue with him; I still think, however, that he is wrong.From the entry however
  • I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.From the entry think
  • I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.From the entry breathe
  • The tanker is 25 years old but she is still very seaworthy.From the entry she
  • I've made progress, but this is still, in Churchill's phrase, just "the end of the beginning."From the entry phrase
  • You need to write down what happened while it's still fresh in your mind.From the entry down
  • It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.From the entry down
  • Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.From the entry browbeat
  • The campfire died down, but it's still burning enough to feel some warmth through the night.From the entry burn
  • With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.From the entry hit

Meaning of still

  1. adjective Not moving; calm.
  2. adjective Not effervescing; not sparkling.
  3. adjective Uttering no sound; silent.

Full definition of still

Questions about still in a sentence

How do you use still in a sentence?
Still is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “Sit there and stay still!”
What is a short sentence with still?
“a still spore”
What does still mean?
Still means not moving; calm.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: still (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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