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stillness

noun as in silence

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Example Sentences

They gather and sleep in open fields, surrounded by nature and the stillness of the night.

The soft sounds of retching filtered back into the black stillness.

In the stillness, a movement at the end of her bed commands her attention.

But in his stillness he has become the god he always wanted to be.

There is a stillness in the early hours that feels to me the clearest, healthiest drug humanly available.

In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.

The wind dropped just at that moment and the doctor's words rang sharply through the stillness.

At length, a low cry of pain broke the stillness that prevailed, and uttering it, the boy awoke.

She had no idea of the time, but because of the stillness of the surrounding streets she knew that it must be very late.

They had no power of attention even to a story, and the stillness was irksome to such wild colts.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stillness, such as: calmness, hush, serenity, tranquility, calm, and inaction.

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

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