stillness

How To Use stillness In A Sentence

• Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness.
• The crowds which have been passing to and fro during the whole day, are rapidly dwindling away; and the noise of shouting and quarrelling which issues from the public – houses, is almost the only sound that breaks the melancholy stillness of the night. Sketches by Boz
• Not a ripple troubles the surface, not a single speck of dust clouds the glassy stillness. Times, Sunday Times
• The stillness all around, with only the blue sky of August as a great tent cloth over my head.
• Down the gradual slope the scout hastened; his footfall was the only sound that broke the stillness after the answers to his call had ceased. Old Indian Days
• Rosamund," he said, -- that stillness within him forbade any preparation, any "leading up," -- "I've joined the City Imperial Volunteers. In the Wilderness
• In the stillness of this beautiful place, it takes little to imagine the hiss of steam and the clattering of motion once more. Times, Sunday Times
• The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins, look melancholy. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
• dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness
• The Marais Communal of Curzon lies in the lap of low scrubby hills, like a green sea of stillness.