Sentence examples for stilled in from inspiring English sources

Yet, trapped here with five thousand others, Pending Vegan felt for the moment stilled in his crisis.

The lava-heated and glacier-cooled water, stilled in its columns, did funny things with people's faces.

Sitting on the stage for the entire performance, she cuts a pathetic figure: feet turned in, oversized spectacles, body stilled in subdued contemplation.

We don't know what people used to do with the 7 hours that they now spend watching television, but it must be that an abundance of human activities have been stilled in television's cool light.

It filled the amphitheater of the new World Trade Center rising downtown — normally as chaotic and efficient as an ant hill — with an otherworldly silence, its jackhammers and great swinging cranes strangely stilled in veils of holiday tranquillity.

I hated to think that either of my daughters' teachers felt that the girls had failed to grow intellectually, that something had been stilled in them, or worse, that their teachers would be penalized for the results.

The festival audience, usually chatty and restless, was stilled and, in the many quiet moments, virtually transfixed: frozen in the kind of concentrated attention the songs demand and deserve.

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The convention hall included many delegates who remembered when he stilled Madison Square Garden in New York as he yielded the party's 1980 nomination to President Jimmy Carter, declaring the "dream will never die".

Caterpillar shares also lifted from their intraday lows, but stilled closed in negative territory, trading down 4.3% to $53.44.

Whatever your politics, I wish for you what I wish for myself: that we always hear the gentle whisper of the twenty small voices that were stilled last week in Newtown.