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Example sentences for "quite still"

  • He thought he had lost her, then almost ran into her standing quite still.

  • She was still kneeling before a trunk, and he stood close to her, quite still.

  • Finally, he stopped, sat up quite still for a minute or so, and then drooped and died.

  • He can accomplish the feat when the air is quite still and no wind stirring.

  • If the operation is performed gently the jack will remain quite still, though the wire rubs against his side: silence and stillness have such a power over all living creatures.

  • We were so afraid of her finding out that we were both in one bed, that we lay quite, quite still.

  • No, only I like sitting this way--quite still," he replied.

  • I made Racey be quite still, and I didn't speak any more, and in a little I heard by Tom's breathing that he had gone to sleep again.

  • Follow him awhile, and you will find him standing quite still, breathing in great sighs, his back humped and his eye dim, the gore trickling from his nostrils.

  • And, quite still, she waited for the door to open.

  • So when the little girl came to see her that night, she made her go to bed in a nice little bed she'd made for her, and told her she was to be quite still, for perhaps a' ogre was coming to see her.

  • Well, when things go quite still, they've gone back to God.

  • I am quite still, and they have sat there quietly for some little time.

  • You'll have to be quite still, and then you'll get better soon.

  • It was pleasant to lie quite, quite still.

  • She remained kneeling for some time, quite still, and deeply moved, her black hair against the red squares and the lavender-sprigged squares of the patchwork-quilt.

  • She used to sit just there; quite still; quite still.

  • So, she used to sit just here, quite still.

  • She remained kneeling for some time, quite still, and deeply moved, her black hair against the red squares and the lavender-sprigged squares of the patchwork quilt.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite still" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    covered with; earnest desire; makes them; our system; quite clean; quite clear; quite dead; quite difficult; quite distinct; quite easily; quite evident; quite impossible; quite independent; quite independently; quite know; quite natural; quite near; quite plain; quite right; quite safe; quite small; quite unable; quite understand; said mamma; single thing; telling stories