How to Use still in a Sentence

still

1 of 4 adjective

• They had still and fizzy drinks.
• The cat twitched slightly, and then was still.
• Everyone had left, and the house was finally still.
• In the still darkness of night, stars blanket the sky above the backyard.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2021
• Ahead of them, the race’s 55-mile course curled into the still pitch-black winter day.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2023
• Below the hill, beyond ranks of lemon and olive trees, the Gulf of Corinth lay ironed flat on a still day.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
• But the still images might not have been photos, to begin with.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 8 Sep. 2021
• Robison pulled out of the current into a still section in front of the rock.
  — Chloe Williams, The Atlantic, 20 June 2022
• People once had to find a still body of water and stare into it to see themselves.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
• He's shown in a still image from police bodycam footage, right, with his hands up.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2023
• In the still image, the man is wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and a navy and red beanie cap and is eating a bag of Doritos.
  — Andi Babineau, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• The college has released a still image from the video, showing the back of a young woman with long, strawberry-blond hair in a braid.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2021
• The still house was unfinished, lacking windows and doors.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
• Meta Video of a sea turtle, animated from a still image with Make-A-Video.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• While the still images were shot using off-the-shelf wigs with the fronts removed and customized, the three wigs used the most throughout the film were custom-made to fit the dark-haired de Armas.
  — Carita Rizzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2022
• In the still images, a weapon capable of firing rifle rounds can be seen being stuck out of the window of the vehicle.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 1 June 2023
• Police provided a still image of the suspect with his face covered.
  — Celina Tebor, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023
• The wood turned into crunchy splinters that fell to his feet, creating a puff of orange dust that briefly hung in the still air of the Cleveland National Forest.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
• In the video above, an Anna's hummingbird hovers in the still air of an inactive wind tunnel and sips sucrose from a syringe.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2012
• From there, someone must have taken a still image from the video, Oaks said, because the company hasn't posted it anywhere else.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
• When shown a still image from the video, Barker admitted to being the woman in the incident, according to the complaint.
  — James Bikales, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• Doctors in the emergency room scrambled to assess the newcomers and discovered the still body of an infant boy.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• On Tuesday, Fox News Digital obtained a still frame from the gas station surveillance video that shows a four-door white sedan drive by around 3:45 a.m. on the morning of the murders.
  — Matt Finn, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2022
• In every Instagram-like reel section, users can click on a share button to create a still image of that Replay 2022 part.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 29 Nov. 2022
• Kemp then wandered the hallways at the school with the bouquet, according to a still image from a security camera at the school that is included in the court filing.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Before mirrors, people saw themselves only in the still surface of water.
  — Perdita Buchan, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2022
• Readers may recall my account of our yellow tabby, Peackoe, who often spent the wee hours posted like a still watchman at the open screen door in our bedroom.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023
• Her ideas of war had come from art—from photographs of the devastated city of Warsaw, which appeared deserted in the still images; from books that described battle and carnage.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• While sharing the video, police pointed out gold decals on the motorcyclist’s helmet, tattoos on the man’s right arm, and zoomed in on a still image of the motorcyclist, which partially shows his face.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• On Wednesday morning, Paltrow’s attorney Steve Owens raised an objection to a still photographer in the courtroom transmitting a photo of her.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023

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still

2 of 4 adverb

• Sit still. It'll just take a minute.
• For now, the Cavorite X5 is still in the concept stage.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
• Jade still hadn't heard back from Roach and took Tom home.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
• As of Tuesday afternoon, the goat is still on the loose.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2023
• Fewer make the first team, and fewer still are bona fide stars.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• Those of us who watched the 2017 solar eclipse might even have a pair still stashed in the back of our sock drawer.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• But there's billions of dollars that are still left to be spent.
  — ABC News, 30 July 2023
• Better still, the Beach House comes with a yacht transfer rather than the speed boat (with a four night stay).
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• The Grammys might be over, but the parties are still going strong.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• Two cell phones which were sucked out of the plane were also found on the ground in the Portland area, one of which was still working.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
• On the call, Peters said line of business was still growing.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Thirty years from now, those kids who are in their teens right now still will be without a mom.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
• In fact, some in the king’s fleet, including the king himself, are thought to be still trapped in a cavern on those lands.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• The network is still built in Rupert’s monstrous image, and it is built to last.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
• Tickets to see the film in theaters are still available at Fandango.com and elsewhere.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
• Until her final days, Rosalynn was still able to get around with the help of a walker.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• A lot of people, she was touched to see, were still passionate about that mission.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• The strap is flexible but still keeps your foot in place, and the bottom offers great traction.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
• It's been nearly 25 years since the couple tied the knot, and they're still smitten with one another.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• Davis still acts as Travis’ voice, helping assist him in daily life.
  — Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
• Aid workers on the ground say that thousands more people could still be trapped under the rubble.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Coffee cakes tend to be modest, cozy affairs, but there’s still a lot that is special about them.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• For those who worked on the project, there’s still a feeling of regret for never completing the story.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2023
• Meanwhile, the commission still isn’t able to do work because the group lacks enough have enough members to hold a meeting.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• There’s still that voice in my head that lingered from sport into just everyday life.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• But Evans said the cause of the dangerous conditions — the state’s lack of long-term treatment centers for youths — is still a problem.
  — Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2024
• With the little stuff still on the loose, the Taurus isn't ready for games of coordination with an Audi 5000S.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
• At this hour, there is still no clarity from the U.S. side on whether this is the big ground offensive that's been expected -- or just part of the buildup.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Today, Mothering Sunday is still celebrated on the last Sunday of Lent, the date of which varies each year.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 12 May 2024
• Haaland, now sixty-three, still runs marathons, and the pair enjoy hiking together.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024

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still

3 of 4 noun

• As the story comes to a close, the action freezes into a still.
  — Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Others look more like stills from a video game or a lucid dream.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• In the still of the pandemic, Monroe kept studying her craft.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2020
• Police also shared a still of the car believed to be involved in the shooting.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2021
• To their knowledge, this is the first time an aura has been picked up in a moving image rather than a still.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2021
• The fact that the war in Ukraine has not ended and stills goes on has its implications beyond Ukraine.
  — Liz Friden, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
• The more than 2-mile street of offices and shops was photographed from the back of a moving pickup truck, then printed like stills from a movie.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• There’s a still of them covered in cake for reasons unbeknownst to us but that may be funny and/or cute in the context of the film.
  — Vulture, 3 July 2023
• The rats, who had drowned in a rainstorm, lay in artful counterpoint, as though posing for a still-life.
  — Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Turn on the recoil activation for the video and camera and capture unique stills and footage from your hunts.
  — Amanda Oliver, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
• Sam Bennett and Tkachuk gave the Panthers that necessary component for the game on a team that is stills too soft at the edges. 3.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
• Since the release of the surveillance stills, Goudreau said, the community has reached out with more than 30 tips.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• In a still from a DeepMind demo video, a researcher pushes a small humanoid robot to the ground.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• For Mother’s Day in 2020, Quincy reenacted some stills from the show in a silly post.
  — Tamara Palmer, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• Photo stills of the assault showed two people kicking and punching the victim, who was lying on the ground.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
• The mash is pushed through stills, a process that extracts vaporized alcohol from the residue, which can then be fed to livestock.
  — Emily Bingham, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
• Fallon proceeded to show a few episode stills that emphasized the point.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2023
• People ask me to sign that one a lot, and actually there's a photo of it as well that someone's lifted from a still of the film.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• But there is one jacket that has been used in a lot of the publicity stills, made from an Osage blanket.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• Even with some dark overcast skies, the CarCam held up with slightly dimmer but still usable videos and stills.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• For both residents and visitors alike, most days end the same way: outdoors, in the still of the mountains, perhaps gazing up at the bright belt of the Milky Way.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• These stills of Elphaba (Erivo) and Galinda (Grande) were not.
  — Vulture, 16 Apr. 2023
• New York in the '70s, widely acknowledged to be the birthplace of hip-hop takes on a life of its own as black-and-white stills of b-boys flash over Hall des Lumière's stone walls.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The man who practiced the art of media saturation was reduced to a handful of stills and a Grinch-y courtroom sketch.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Cooper, who is not Jewish, was first spotted with the nose when photo stills from the Netflix biopic were published last year.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• The rum was distilled in pot and column stills, and aged for 20 years in American whiskey barrels in Barbados.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
• Culkin starred in it alongside Murphy and Scrivener posted stills from the shoot on her Instagram.
  — Kelsey Lentz, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
• The eager cosmopolitan ingénue of the film stills is visible only in the rearview mirror.
  — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The pandemic also gave Eagle Park distiller Jordan Stielow time to fire up the still for spirits.
  — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2020
• As a photographer, Mustard makes great use of stills, images frozen in time that serve as reminders of who these people have been.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023

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still

4 of 4 verb

• The holiday table wasn’t the same after that, the laughter in the house largely stilled.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• My grandmother swayed like a hammock between us, then stilled.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Matt Hall mushed through blowing and drifting snow in the last miles between Safety and Nome before conditions stilled to a calm and sunny afternoon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The candle flickered, the dust motes danced, one of our party wept, and even I was moved, my habitual skepticism for once stilled by the palpable tranquility of the place.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its imagery, however, is awful and overt: even before the show starts, as the audience files in, three Black men are hanging in midair, their legs dangling, the motion of their bodies almost stilled.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The holiday table wasn’t the same after that, the laughter in the house largely stilled.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• My grandmother swayed like a hammock between us, then stilled.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Matt Hall mushed through blowing and drifting snow in the last miles between Safety and Nome before conditions stilled to a calm and sunny afternoon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The candle flickered, the dust motes danced, one of our party wept, and even I was moved, my habitual skepticism for once stilled by the palpable tranquility of the place.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its imagery, however, is awful and overt: even before the show starts, as the audience files in, three Black men are hanging in midair, their legs dangling, the motion of their bodies almost stilled.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The holiday table wasn’t the same after that, the laughter in the house largely stilled.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• My grandmother swayed like a hammock between us, then stilled.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Matt Hall mushed through blowing and drifting snow in the last miles between Safety and Nome before conditions stilled to a calm and sunny afternoon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The candle flickered, the dust motes danced, one of our party wept, and even I was moved, my habitual skepticism for once stilled by the palpable tranquility of the place.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its imagery, however, is awful and overt: even before the show starts, as the audience files in, three Black men are hanging in midair, their legs dangling, the motion of their bodies almost stilled.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The holiday table wasn’t the same after that, the laughter in the house largely stilled.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• My grandmother swayed like a hammock between us, then stilled.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Matt Hall mushed through blowing and drifting snow in the last miles between Safety and Nome before conditions stilled to a calm and sunny afternoon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The candle flickered, the dust motes danced, one of our party wept, and even I was moved, my habitual skepticism for once stilled by the palpable tranquility of the place.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its imagery, however, is awful and overt: even before the show starts, as the audience files in, three Black men are hanging in midair, their legs dangling, the motion of their bodies almost stilled.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The holiday table wasn’t the same after that, the laughter in the house largely stilled.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• My grandmother swayed like a hammock between us, then stilled.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Matt Hall mushed through blowing and drifting snow in the last miles between Safety and Nome before conditions stilled to a calm and sunny afternoon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The candle flickered, the dust motes danced, one of our party wept, and even I was moved, my habitual skepticism for once stilled by the palpable tranquility of the place.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its imagery, however, is awful and overt: even before the show starts, as the audience files in, three Black men are hanging in midair, their legs dangling, the motion of their bodies almost stilled.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The holiday table wasn’t the same after that, the laughter in the house largely stilled.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• My grandmother swayed like a hammock between us, then stilled.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Matt Hall mushed through blowing and drifting snow in the last miles between Safety and Nome before conditions stilled to a calm and sunny afternoon.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The candle flickered, the dust motes danced, one of our party wept, and even I was moved, my habitual skepticism for once stilled by the palpable tranquility of the place.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Its imagery, however, is awful and overt: even before the show starts, as the audience files in, three Black men are hanging in midair, their legs dangling, the motion of their bodies almost stilled.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023

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