stand still

How To Use stand still In A Sentence

• My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
• Weather doesn't stand still and we must learn to be fleet of foot. The Sun
• With a temporary respite from timetables, regular classes, special classes, tests and homework, time seems to stand still at last.
• Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.
• She wouldn't stand still, trying to eavesdrop, so my Aunt suggested they go for a drive to stickybeak at my mum's new house.
• She wished wistfully for a warm summer on a Californian beach where her skin burned as easily as toast and time seemed to stand still.
• Not one to stand still, he is determined to raise his game to a new level.
• Consider the fact that a rider can stand still on its platform, supported only by two wheels on either side, and not roll off in either direction.
• The wind stopped whistling through the trees, the birds stopped singing, and time seemed to just stand still.
• Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.