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He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.

He remained motionless in the next shot but the fear of what was to follow was etched on his face.

“He immediately dropped to the ground in front of the door where he remained motionless,” the criminal complaint says.

Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.

I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th Avenue in lower Manhattan.

A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.

When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.

Motionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.

The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.

The major and Hicks, who stood not far from him, were both unusually pale in the face, as they gazed motionless before them.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to motionless, such as: frozen, immobile, inert, lifeless, paralyzed, and stagnant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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