Sample Sentences forstill lifegrouped by contextual meaning (auto-selected)
still life as in: a still life painting
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"It's called a 'still life,' " Helen explained. (source)still life = a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers
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The walls glowed with a warm, dull haze of opulence, a generic mellowness of antiquity; but then it all broke apart into clarity and color and pure Northern light, portraits, interiors, still lifes, some tiny, others majestic: ladies with husbands, ladies with lapdogs, lonely beauties in embroidered gowns and splendid, solitary merchants in jewels and furs.† (source)
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She's taken some of the still lifes, Wringer, Toaster, Deadly Nightshade, and Three Witches.† (source)
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Still lifes, religious scenes, and landscapes accompanied portraits of nobility and politicians.† (source)
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The world's greatest artists have seen fit to paint still lifes from time to time.† (source)
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Donald is a moderately talented painter of small still lifes of single, everyday objects: an egg, a cup, a comb, suspended against brightly colored backgrounds.† (source)
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I was just wondering if it was a landscape, a portrait, or a still life.† (source)
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I'd finally loaded my camera and tentatively taken a few pictures, just objects and still lifes, no faces yet.† (source)
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So there was still life like this somewhere!† (source)
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Landscapes, still lifes, animals—a fellow like me shrinks from absolutely nothing.† (source)
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette Still burning, and a glass of water.† (source)
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Landscapes, still lifes, she considered a change of pace.† (source)
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fly wife is an artist and I thought perhaps she might want them for a still life, but when I got home with the dogs—the eggs somehow unbroken, cradled in my pack bouncing on the rig—I saw Hawk sitting on her clutch of eggs.† (source)
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You'll have to find a way to make those still lifes interesting.† (source)
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Then I knelt, too, and prayed: "0 God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin," and the man on the bed opened his eyes and gave a sigh, the sort of sigh I had imagined people made at the moment of death, but his eyes moved so that we knew there was still life in him.† (source)
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Apart from the still lifes, what I'm showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper.† (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus
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There's still life in her now though, in the rapid rise and fall of her chest, the low moan escaping her lips.
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still life = the two words in their literal sense that does not refer to art
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