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Not moving.

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Usage examples (37)
  • It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.
  • You would then be instructed to remain motionless for a specified time.
  • How can we remain motionless when our youth the cream of the population are calling for land?
  • She lay down, and for a long time remained in motionless passive dismay; then nature asserted her rights and she slept.
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