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
• A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still. Anne of Green Gables
• New business Public relations consultancies no more want to stand still than any other business enterprise.
• And then the carts with their array of pastry to make the heart stand still.
• Patients may complain of an inability to sit or stand still, or a compulsion to pace or cross and uncross their legs.
• While there, we looked down into the street beneath, and saw a photographist preparing to take a view of the castle, and calling out to some little girl in some niche or on some pinnacle of the walls to stand still that he might catch her figure and face. Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
• As the train came to a near stand still, passengers say they heard loud bangs coming from underneath the train.
• There are other men who stand still higher on the "rolls of fame," whose Diacatholicons never vary, whatever be the name or nature of the disease!
• The police burst in and told everyone to stand still.
• Please keep/stay/hold/sit/stand still while I take your photograph.