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How to use stillness in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Stillness means the quality or state of being still. Example: “A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen.”

More sentences with stillness

  • A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry yieldingly
  • A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon.1922 March 24, “Now—The Point Was This—”, in The Chadron Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 26, Chadron, Neb.. From the entry bookkeeperess
  • Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry monody
  • He sensed Wheeler tensing, the slightest of tremors in the stillness of the ruined chapel, a flitter of irritation.2016, Mark Douglas-Home, The Malice of Waves. From the entry flitter
  • But when the roaring died, there was only the silence: the awful, abashing stillness of the prison night.2006, Sarah Waters, chapter 3, in The Night Watch, London: Virago, published 1944, page 287. From the entry abashing
  • "The stillness I broke by myself when I spoke.2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings. From the entry forthset
  • Smudge them black, the lion has finished eating the leopard, the stillness is eternal . . . that is my head.1977, Nancy Dean, Myra Stark, In the looking glass: twenty-one modern short stories by women, page 11. From the entry ungloss
  • It was the breathful stillness of a tropical afternoon.1969, Australian Literary Studies, page 383. From the entry breathful
  • He was up with the first “sunrisers” and his ax was the last to break the stillness at night.1916, Anne Shannon Monroe, Happy Valley: A Story of Oregon, page 129. From the entry sunriser
  • Some clock clove with silver the stillness of the morning.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry cleave
  • A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13. From the entry resounding
  • Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 82. From the entry privy
  • With real though rude art, the harlequin danced slowly backwards out of the door into the garden, which was full of moonlight and stillness.1911 May 20, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Flying Stars”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and…. From the entry vamp
  • On one of these walks, towards the end of the month, they sat peacefully together under a pear tree in a ‘crocusy field, perfect stillness, grey, hazy, mysterious’.2021, Jennifer Walker, Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey; A Biography of Elizabeth von Arnim, [Kibworth Beauchamp]…. From the entry crocusy
  • AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman. From the entry screech
  • In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry chine
  • Unlike most historic sites, which tend to ossify into Havishamesque stillness, Chesterwood, the turn-of-the-century home of popular academic sculptor Daniel Chester French, welcomes the fresh breezes of life.1987 October, Julie Michaels, Susan Zesiger, “Guaranteed Listings”, in Daniel Okrent, editor, New England Monthly, volume 4, number 10…. From the entry Havishamesque
  • It was only the other day that Persia woke up from her age-long sleep at the call of the West to be instantly trampled into stillness by the Nation.1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan. From the entry the other day
  • The stillness returned, save for the little voices of the night—the owl's recitative, the capriccio of the crickets, the concerto of the frogs in the grass.1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Renaissance at Charleroi”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.…. From the entry capriccio

Meaning of stillness

  1. noun The quality or state of being still.
  2. noun Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

Full definition of stillness

Questions about stillness in a sentence

How do you use stillness in a sentence?
Stillness is used as a noun. For example: “A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen.”
What is a short sentence with stillness?
“"The stillness I broke by myself when I spoke.”
What does stillness mean?
Stillness means the quality or state of being still.

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