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Example sentences for "motionlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
motility; motion; motioned; motioning; motionless; motionlessness; motions; motiv; motivate; motivated
  1. Some of those watching displayed a certain sickening delight at the sight of a motionlessly waiting Habrunt and the two prostrate girls kneeling with faces downcast in the dust at his feet.

  2. Moments later, both boys reappeared flying down the front steps and came running at breakneck speed across the courtyard in returning to a motionlessly waiting Habrunt, his right arm still stiffly out-held, open-handed.

  3. The two frightened girls stayed hidden, watching motionlessly in the spice tent as the giant stood like a temple god himself and conversed at great length with the Foundryman.

  4. The Hirlaji stood motionlessly in dimness; it took awhile for Rynason's eyes to adjust to it.

  5. They found Horng sitting motionlessly at the edge of the cluster of buildings, gazing out over the Flat toward the low hills which stood black against the deep blue of the horizon sky.

  6. When Beate entered Giulia was still sitting motionlessly in her evening robe in the easy chair.

  7. But from dread of the echo of my footsteps, which rumbled away through the empty space as if something besides myself were stirring here, I sat down motionlessly upon a bench, folded my hands, tried to pray, and then to fall asleep.

  8. Her anchors had caught, and, the wind falling as dusk came on, she remained motionlessly suspended above a vast field of verdure, formed by the tops of a forest of sycamores.

  9. For some moments they listened minutely and motionlessly among the foliage, and ere long Joe seized Kenedy's hand as he heard a sort of rubbing sound against the bark of the tree.

  10. Motionlessly he stared into the distance before him with a dim look, and only his lips were slightly quivering.

  11. And the glance of those terrible eyes, motionlessly fixed somewhere in the distance through the wall--that, too, was unfamiliar to Ignat.

  12. Without further gyration, motionlessly it seemed, the body sank, till it became blurred, obscure, shapeless.

  13. Squalid children abounded, and at one point a crowd of people had gathered and stood looking silently and motionlessly over the bank.

  14. All this time the stranger had been sitting motionlessly listening to what the other said, his eyes fixed intently upon the shadowed face of the master of the Roost.

  15. He tried to stay awake, but presently he began again dozing off, waking every now and then to find Dred steadily at the helm, and the young lady lying motionlessly opposite to him.

  16. But soon his mouth closed, his hands dropped on the sheaf of willow branches and his head rested motionlessly against the wall.

  17. Having heard this question, the melamed put his elbows on the table, and fixed his eyes motionlessly and with an expression of deep reflection on the opposite wall.

  18. Each gazed for a second motionlessly in the other's face.

  19. We sat motionlessly meditative in the shadows of a Gothic doorway of medieval pattern, and ruefully observed the movements of a giant rat, slaking his thirst at a water-spout.

  20. The universal colour was broken only by the dazzling white of a few high summer clouds, motionlessly curled above one phantom peak in the offing.

  21. He sat there silently, hunched up awkwardly, dull and heavy, and looked motionlessly before him.

  22. He had taken a good deal to drink and his face was flushed; his motionlessly smiling face and awkward figure made him look like a doll.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motionlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.