Sentence for stillness | Use stillness in a sentence

Stillness sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use stillness in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for stillness.

  • What extraordinary stillness! (8)
  • I give thee stillness. (8)
  • A little sound came out into the stillness. (8)
  • The stillness of the heavens was remarkable. (10)
  • His face had the stillness of extreme trouble. (8)
  • He murmured thanks and entered into the stillness, observing her. (10)
  • Perfect stillness reigned immediately, as if the pic-nic had heard its doom. (10)
  • The gentle murmur was the only sound that broke the stillness of the morning. (6)
  • He lingered long enough to see Anna, too, go down on her knees in the stillness. (8)
  • Lying in this utter stillness, Juliana thought of Rose; of her beloved by Evan. (10)
  • She cocked her ears, and could almost make out voices in the midnight stillness. (10)
  • The way these people listened, the ferocity of their stillness, was frightful…! (8)
  • Then the stillness, like one folding up a precious jewel, seemed to pant audibly. (10)
  • He came back to his chair and did not interrupt again, but his stillness almost frightened her. (8)
  • A cold, clear stillness filled the air of night, yet everywhere rustled the sound of that weeping. (12)
  • About an hour after midnight pastoral stillness and the moon begat in the postillion desire for a pipe. (10)
  • The widow looked through her bed-room window and listened, as if the absolute stillness must beget a sudden cry. (10)
  • The widow looked through her bed-room window and listened, as if the absolute stillness must beget a sudden cry. (22)
  • Perfect harvest weather; but oppressively still, the stillness of suspense…. Life at the farm goes on as usual. (8)
  • The staccato shouts of Jack Cardigan pursuing the ball, the laugh of young Mont rose in the stillness and came in. (8)
  • Then there came a shock, and the shell was struck with light, and they were sensible of stillness without motion. (10)
  • His very stillness, the way he conserved every little scrap of energy, showed the tenacity with which he was fighting. (8)
  • With this intent I proceeded to explore the apartment, which from its perfect stillness, I concluded to be unoccupied. (6)
  • They went into the tasteful little sitting-room below, where the stillness closed upon them as a consciousness of loss. (10)
  • A hundred other lovers too whispered that hope in the stillness of the trees, a hundred other lovers clung to each other. (8)
  • After such utter stillness that she hardly knew whether he were there or not, she felt his hot hand on her bare shoulder. (8)
  • She was still sitting there, with her arms crossed, in the stillness of one whose every nerve and fibre was stretched taut. (8)
  • This sudden thought of death to one for whom life was joy, who had never even seen the Great Stillness, was very terrifying. (8)
  • For an hour or more Scorrier tried to feign sleep, and hide from the stillness, and overmastering gloom of these great woods. (8)
  • But now so low the stillness hums, My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. (10)
  • The stillness in that dark chamber was so great that it seemed to gather in the corners and threaten to burst the walls asunder. (12)
  • All love and life, and joy, anxiety, and sorrow, all movement, light and beauty, but a beginning to this terrible white stillness. (8)
  • Seldom a morning passed when he did not watch them leave the nest on their breakfast-flight, busy in the happy stillness of dawn. (10)
  • The chapel was soon afterwards left to the silence and stillness which reigned in it, with few interruptions, throughout the year. (4)
  • Then there was a perfect stillness, succeeding the strife as quickly, Vittoria thought, as a breath yielded succeeds a breath taken. (10)
  • Dead silence and stillness hung over the dinner-service, when the outer door below was opened, and a light foot sprang up the stairs. (10)
  • Dead silence and stillness hung over the dinner-service, when the outer door below was opened, and a light foot sprang up the stairs. (22)
  • Yet here, Like the pause to things hunted, in doubt, The stillness bred spectral fear Of the awfulness ranging without, And imminent. (10)
  • But starved as he was, the whispered sounds in the stillness, the half-seen forms in the dark, acted on him like some morbid stimulant. (8)
  • Holy to them grew the stillness: the ripple suffused in golden moonlight: the dark edges of the leaves against superlative brightness. (10)
  • That deathly stillness settled round her heart; her eyes fixed themselves on the skylight, as though beseeching it to break and let in sound. (8)
  • Then, in the stillness, Hilary seemed to hear, deep and very faint, the sound as of some monster breathing, or the far beating of muffed drums. (8)
  • Sometimes I was tempted to think it the voice of a neighbouring waterfall, and sometimes a subjective result of the utter stillness of the hill. (2)
  • But, standing undecided before the half-open door, Gyp was conscious, as it were, of too much stillness, of something unnatural about the silence. (8)
  • It was his first sight of human death, and its unutterable stillness blotted from him all other emotion; all else, then, was but preliminary to this! (8)
  • Rosek stood looking down at her; his stillness, the sweetish gravity of his well-cut lips, his spotless dandyism stirred in Gyp a kind of unwilling admiration. (8)
  • He contemplated it placably and studiously, perhaps because the shower-folding armies of the fields above likened its shadowed stillness to that of his Irish home. (10)
  • In the unnatural stillness his ear received tones of a hymn chanted below; now sinking, now swelling; as though the voices faltered between prayer and inspiration. (10)
  • The clean-shaved, square-cut face, with those almost epileptic, forceful eyes, had a stillness and intensity beside which the neighbouring faces seemed to disappear. (8)

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