stock-still
completely still; motionless.
Origin of stock-still
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How to use stock-still in a sentence
You had to memorize something and stand stock still with your hands behind your voice and just boom out in front of 500 people.
'About a Boy' Star David Walton Is No Hugh Grant, in the Best Way | Kevin Fallon | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd as the witness began to openly weep, his sobs filled the stock-still courtroom.
Jerry Sandusky Trial, Day Two: Young Accuser Breaks Down | Diane Dimond | June 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut when he took his place to address the jury on this day he began by standing stock-still and speaking in a low, serious tone.
Jury Gets the Edwards Case: Deliberations to Begin Friday | Diane Dimond | May 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThey sat stock-still on the hardwood benches of the dank, makeshift cinema in Monrovia.
Liberian Nostalgia for War Criminal Charles Taylor | Finlay Young | April 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Mafuta, instead of taking this advice, suddenly stood stock still, as if he had been petrified!
Hunting the Lions | R.M. Ballantyne
It seemed as though a shiver ran through Kari's body, and he stopped stock still.
Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal MukerjiNeither the intellectual nor the moral character of any person stands stock-still: a man improves, or he declines.
He stood stock-still at one end while the fellows nearest him thrashed him unmercifully with the heavy knots.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarThe three men stood stock still, and gazed like owls solemnly into the dark.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton Laurie
British Dictionary definitions for stock-still
absolutely still; motionless
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