The unhappy couple stay motionless, as if locked in time.
Sykora stayed motionless on the ice for several minutes.
He stayed motionless for several moments, until pushing off the dock and paddling away.
They step, stop, and stay, motionless, nose to the air, looking and smelling.
As visitors took turns to sit facing her, she stayed motionless before all but one, her ex-partner and fellow artist, Uwe Laysiepen, whose hands she took.
What if, when the young man came knocking, the grown woman hid, locked her bedroom door and "stayed motionless on her bed, not answering, hugging her knees tightly"?
Diana and her friends had stayed motionless with their arms raised throughout this process, as though hoping to overcome the enemy's aggression with the strength of their circle.
Every spring saw a batch of new chicks in the yard; in the summer the fluffy clouds sometimes stayed motionless for hours; any month could be called a rainy season, and the rain seemed to keep their house perpetually damp and chilly.
The poet Stamatis Polenakis suggests as much in "Poetry Does Not Suffice," translated by A. E. Stallings: The sirens don't sing, nor are they silent, they merely stay motionless, dumbstruck by the privatization of the waves and no poetry doesn't suffice since the sea filled up with trash and condoms.
