Sentence examples for quite motionless from inspiring English sources

"They were all of them quite silent, quite motionless".

I immediately went to the pool and saw Brian at the bottom, quite motionless.

Down the far aisle a third man is in a wheelchair, apparently dead: his neck is bent back brokenly, his jaw gapes, his head is unhinged, and he is quite motionless.

On the back a stranger is caught by the camera paralysed in mid-sprint, while Drake leans against a wall quite motionless, his face betraying no semblance of an expression.

Though they resemble the fearsome sea serpents of folklore, a recent video of a live oarfish in the Gulf of Mexico revealed that the fish are actually quite motionless in their natural habitat; they use paddlelike fins that help them balance as their snakelike bodies hover vertically in the water.

It may not seem chilly at all when you first step out, but you're likely to be standing or lying motionless for quite awhile, waiting for the next 'good one', the dampness of the early hours will take its toll.

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Just a description of a woman "motionless, lifeless but not quite dead, lifeless on the outside, but everything happening within, malaria coursing through her veins, bloating her liver, fevering her poor troubled brain".

As is typical of this genus, the Peruvian Thick-knee is largely active at night, and roosting motionless in open areas where the ground color is quite similar to that of the back color of the bird.

I saw Evita in 1979 and remember being so stunned by the production that I sat motionless for several minutes when it ended -- not quite believing what I had witnessed.

Despite the small size and thin walls of the capillaries, the blood pressures may be quite high, as, for instance, in the legs of a person in a motionless upright position.