Sentence examples for not keep still from inspiring English sources

It would not keep still and would not end; it changed shape and smell.

Since people sentenced to that 19th century punishment could not keep still for a second.

He was sitting at a conference table beside Parma's captain, Alessandro Lucarelli, who could not keep still, frowning and fidgeting when he paused between exasperated monologues.

By the second grade, his teachers were summoning his parents to complain that the boy would not keep still, and that he persisted in questioning their authority.

Moreover, the blobs do not keep still because every four seconds or so, as the radar beam sweeps past, the signal is bounced back by different parts of the turbine's blades in unpredictable and confusing ways.

Afterward, on the London Underground, my feet would not keep still; they were remembering the clog dance performed by the heroine's mother, Widow Simone (a role played by a man, in British pantomime-dame fashion).

He couldn't keep still but didn't want to talk with anyone.

"I don't need to work," he said, "but my hand won't keep still".

"He can't keep still for long periods of time," Ms. Skaggs said.

"He was lost in his own world, and couldn't keep still for five seconds," she says.

He fidgets, he can't keep still for a second, he won't look you in the eye.