Sentence examples for motionless like from inspiring English sources

"You lie motionless like people in shock".

They are motionless, like word sculptures, and cleave too closely to the familiar tics of contemporary "wacky" fiction.

The rest hang motionless, like monuments to an optimistic vision of an alternative future as imagined by Soviet engineers.

In the small hours, down at the port, seagulls wheel around the cranes resting motionless, like giant, paralysed insects, against the illuminated pink clouds.

But it is reportedly a shell that provides an illusion of life largely motionless, like the nearby statue of the country's first leader.

"He just sat there motionless, like a guy whose edibles just kicked in," Noah joked, before pretending to be stoned, blinking slowly with his mouth slightly agape.

He stands motionless, shaped like a cat struggling forward with bent head.

While Leonard prowls the room with complete command, his students often huddle in motionless clumps, like petrified lambs eyeing a wolf in their midst.

As she huddled with Azmi, suggesting that she try humming as she cooked, the actress stood motionless, blinking, like someone caught in the headlights — which, in a way, is what Nair's dark, kohl-lined eyes are.

From my angle, behind third base, the ball seemed less an object in flight than the tip of a towering, motionless construct, like the Eiffel Tower or the Tappan Zee Bridge.

We saw the howler monkeys (which didn't so much howl as throb) and all the time, watching us from the banks, were the striped and crested iguanas, motionless, silent, like spirits of the jungle keeping tabs on us as we passed.