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Example sentences for: stilled

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With these ideals in place, we have to recognize that the guns of war had stilled very few of our fundamental social conflicts.
Now that's a living object stilled.
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.
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.
"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."