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ADJECTIVE
  1. (poetic) still or calm
    in the stilly night

How To Use stilly In A Sentence

  • In the dusk we walked out onto a little bridge to watch birds, and in the stilly evening, out over the lake an alpen horn began to play.
  • Forby derives [cook-eels] from coquille, in allusion to their being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by Cotgrave, who has "Pain coquillé, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our stillyard bunne. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
  • For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems. A Silent Wooing
  • It was forcefully exported with a tetratonic continental health partnerships richmond virginia and all harness and utensils, a denying clue with a stereotactic couch, everyone chair and tension tv and obesity of land space to council out at the double - albeit stilly directed - mail of the churidars and sandal below. Wii-volution
  • Both of the federal party committees are stilly carrying debt from the 2006 election cycle -- $5 million for the DCCC, $6 million for the DSCC. Jeff Nussbaum: Dedicate a Fifth to the Future: One Democrat's Plea for the Party
  • Barack Obama is different, not a political practitioner, really, but something else, and not a warm-blooded animal but a cool, chill character, a fish who sits deep in the tank and stares, stilly, at the other fish. Obama and the Debt Crisis
  • In fact, Jane has been stilly love her boss George Hungary, she always with the illusion that one day be able to put on her own Wedding dress.
  • They wait there, standing stilly even as the bus slows and tries to stop close to that spot, where a brake squeals mightily.
  • He looks down the hall at the remaining plastic sheet hanging stilly in the dry air. Windows
  • Also, I'm told -- and I'm really in no position to know how true this is -- that African-Americans are stilly fairly rare in the elite forces like First Recon, Delta, and the SEALS, and that programs like THE UNIT tend to exagerate their percentage I seem to recall one writer claiming that there are actually more Asian-Americans in Delta and the SEALS than there are African-Americans. Reviews Too Late: Generation Kill
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