Example sentences for: stillness

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

  • With relative stillness this week from the White House, the Hill, Kenneth Starr's office, and the world of international diplomacy (excepting Ireland, unfortunately), the commentariat must clown about to keep the crowd's attention.

  • Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, "I'm a human being!"

  • Nora now sits in an ominous stillness.

  • The battle ended, these men lie hauntingly in fields of stillness, a "harvest of death," in Gardner's own phrase.

  • Autumn brings the finest hues to the landscape, when the leaves turn shades of apricot and copper, the bracken changes to a burnt umber, and the hillsides glow in the low sunlight, reflecting perfectly in the glassy stillness of the lakes.


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