Sentence examples for fell still from inspiring English sources

"fell still" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe a sudden and complete silence or pause, especially in a dramatic context. For example, "The room fell still as her father's last words lingered in the air."

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Then the wood fell still.

In the half-light of the chapel, Pearson gnawed on this line, sang it over, and once again over, until the room fell still.

Brilliantly executed by soloist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, it glittered and growled at the extremes of the keyboard and, in a final tryst with the soprano saxophone, fell still.

That target looked a long way off when the seventh wicket fell still 77 runs short and the very sharp Timm van der Gugten having already won two LBW decisions and hit the stumps twice, fancied more.

Holiday's recorded version captures something of its early live performance: sung at the very end of her set, the waiters stopped service, the audience fell still, and save for the spotlight that fell on her face, the room lay in total darkness.

Interest rates were increased last year to encourage saving rather than spending after the currency's plummeting value prompted some Russians to snap up foreign goods in case its value fell still further.

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His brain falls still.

She falls still.

Her fall came from such a great height, and she had very far to fall still.

Trousers I'd owned for years would fall, still fastened, to my ankles.

(Production is expected to fall still further, to perhaps 800 million by 2020).

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