Example Sentences

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After a brief period of motionlessness, I detected my heartbeat.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

John Torres’s lighting makes Mr. Bokaer’s motionlessness memorable.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2012

The ranking round is only a sifting process, but confidence in this strange world of muscular motionlessness is more important than physical wellbeing, as the blurred-of-vision Im may prove.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012

Nor is there such a thing as motionlessness, for everything that exists must react to something else.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lamps were round hazy balls of light frozen into motionlessness, anchored in space and kept from blowing away in the icy wind by black steel posts.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright