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  • In his eyepiece [of the telescope] were windows and walls and rooftops, sometimes stationary, sometimes whizzing by at incredible speed.  (source)
    stationary = motionless
  • They stood raggedly, and the soldiers herded them toward the two stationary boxcars.  (source)
    stationary = parked (standing still)
  • Hound had turned, clenching him in its metal-plier jaws, and trotted off in darkness, while the camera remained stationary, watching the creature dwindle in the distance—a splendid fade-out!  (source)
    stationary = not moving
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  • But, of course, the stars are not stationary, but moving very fast.†  (source)
  • The stationary sun that hung overhead was nothing but a virtual light source, programmed into the imaginary sky.†  (source)
  • Louie scrounged up parachute cord and went to each injured man, looping cord around him as a belt, then wrapping the rope around stationary parts of the plane.†  (source)
  • For two hours and twenty-two minutes Roy remained as stationary as a plaster statue on that mountainside, until one of his teachers found him and led him safely back to the group.†  (source)
  • Sometimes Ender had only a single starship and eight fighters; once the enemy dodged through an asteroid belt; sometimes the enemy left stationary traps, large installations that blew up if Ender brought one of his squadrons too close, often crippling or destroying some of Ender's ships.†  (source)
  • The Count looked up from the spool into Marina's stationary eye, which was filled with concern; but her wandering eye seemed filled with mirth.†  (source)
  • "Mental," Ron sighed, shaking his head at the completely stationary soccer players.†  (source)
  • Now, as Langdon approached the stationary escalators, he paused, realizing Fache was no longer beside him.†  (source)
  • But if I look past the buzzing machine monotonously unzipping the crusted soil, at the field itself and the fields around it, I remember that the seemingly stationary fields are always flowing toward one farmer and away from another.†  (source)
  • Across the street, the green blobs of light are stationary, clustered together as if locked in conversation.†  (source)
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