Sample sentences for STILL LIFE

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a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers

"It's called a 'still life,' " Helen explained.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

still life = a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers

still life
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

still life = a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers

I'd finally loaded my camera and tentatively taken a few pictures, just objects and still lifes, no faces yet.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
We shared a cab along the arid miles between the Lutyens still life and the warm, palpitating motion picture of Old Delhi.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
The lieutenant thought: No pulse, no breath, no heart-beat, but it's still life - we've only got to find a name for it.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
Before I could ever get to my life, conscience was arranging it all like a still life or tableau.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
She's taken some of the still lifes, Wringer, Toaster, Deadly Nightshade, and Three Witches.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Ahead, before the shadow, there was still life.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
There's still life in her now though, in the rapid rise and fall of her chest, the low moan escaping her lips.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
A still life you might say.
Kaye Gibbons -- Ellen Foster
Drawing on her memories of still life class, she drew it in every detail: the smudged rim, the crack in the handle.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
His lunch was spread neatly before him like a still life, and I opened my paper bag, extracting a sandwich.
Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
So there was still life like this somewhere!
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Sarah didn't tilt her head as one might to study from a new angle, but Lee had the impression she was being weighed and dissected like a still life.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
Passing by one broad window, Max spied the easel and canvas where the girl had been working on a still life in the style of the Dutch masters.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Landscapes, still lifes, animals—a fellow like me shrinks from absolutely nothing.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
"The animal has still life in him," returned the squatter, "or the buzzards would settle upon their prey!
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
He could not afford a model but painted still life, and Lawson constantly talked of a plate of apples which he declared was a masterpiece.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The glass protecting a meticulous and vivid still life, a water color by Lee Adams, shattered in its frame with a loud report.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
Miss Moore searches the wall behind us as if the answer might be hiding there among her pastel watercolor still lifes.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty

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