stationaryin a sentence
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The car was stationary when it was hit.stationary = not moving
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The car remained stationary with the engine running.
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It was the only living thing in sight except for a stationary cloud of hysterical gnats suspended in the heat above the road. (source)
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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
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They stood raggedly, and the soldiers herded them toward the two stationary boxcars. (source)stationary = parked (standing still)
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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)
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The stationary sun that hung overhead was nothing but a virtual light source, programmed into the imaginary sky.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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"Mental," Ron sighed, shaking his head at the completely stationary soccer players.† (source)
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Now, as Langdon approached the stationary escalators, he paused, realizing Fache was no longer beside him.† (source)
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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)
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Across the street, the green blobs of light are stationary, clustered together as if locked in conversation.† (source)
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