Definitions

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  • adjective Motionless; destitute of breezes.

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  • adjective Without a breeze.

Etymologies

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breeze +‎ -less

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Examples

  • That's the kind of breezeless heat that just sits on you like a sheet of lead.

    Camp counselor who once lacked a role model has become one 2010

  • He walked past the set of swings next to the jungle gym, where the flat wooden planks hung still in the breezeless late afternoon.

    The Son of Estelle Ivy Lou Freshwater 2011

  • And the quiet allows her to feel what she calls “the evidence of things unseen,” the way her front-porch swing moves rhythmically on breezeless days, the scent of cooking when there are no pots on the stove, the whispers that seem to hum just beneath the cicadas at night.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • While it was a good place to work and people were generally respectful, there was an eerie stillness and a certain kind of silence to the set that felt like a breezeless summer day, and while there were no insects, there were no birds chirping either.

    Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010

  • Several tires have caught fire; they send up sooty corkscrews of stink into the bright, breezeless glare.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Momentum lost, the ball lay static in the breezeless night.

    ALONE • by Mark Dalligan 2008

  • Several tires have caught fire; they send up sooty corkscrews of stink into the bright, breezeless glare.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Several tires have caught fire; they send up sooty corkscrews of stink into the bright, breezeless glare.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • During Shiloh they were either in butternut there dying in the orchard, dying without water or thin-lipped still in Purdy, where cannon boom and rifle shot came clear even on a breezeless day, sliding through the clapboard walls, clotting milk and setting loose that first wall-eyed notion of leaving the South behind.

    HAROLD DERWIN BARNETT, 22 May 1925 - 16 October 2006 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • One test was being conducted on a hot, humid, breezeless morning in Hawaii, on a cinder running track.

    Running from the proof: correlation does not mean causation | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

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