Sentence examples for are as still from inspiring English sources

The streets are as still as death".

Pale-yellow roses are as still as the jar of water they are standing in.

This led at least one otherwise enlightened woman writer/podcaster to speculate, "Is she just all about ambition?" Women are as still defined by their biological imperative, which includes not just birthing babies but being tethered to them for (at least) 21 years.

Make sure you are as still as possible and just take the photo.

The performers must be as still as statues.

He is as still as a worshipper waiting for the imam to resume his prostrations.

I'd like to have a head that is as still as the winter river.

It was as still and quiet as a snapshot of itself: an expanse of empty grass.

Suddenly the third-floor room was as still as a church.

The sound of the rigging at night, when the sea is as still as a millpond.

The crossing took an hour and a half, and the surface of the water was as still as a millpond.