Words similar to stilled

Example sentences for: stilled

How can you use “stilled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Whether that sign stilled his heart with calming thoughts of home (where the Forward was read in Yiddish by his house-painter father and dressmaker mother) or whether it momentarily halted the reach of his escaping imagination is not explained.
At night underground I imagine him nearby somewhere, long limbs caught quickfrozen in a runner's pose, fingers reaching, hard as marble-- I am poured out, O Lord, poured out like water --all night I dream him in that posture of longing, held and stilled beneath the motion and the industry, the unimaginable weight of our living world.
"Only the electric sign of the Jewish Daily Forward , burning high over the tenements of the East Side," he writes, "suddenly stilled the riot in my heart."
A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a "living substance" (milk) has been "stilled," thus "embodying the quintessential definition of the still life."
Now that's a living object stilled.