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  • adjective superlative form of still: most still.

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Examples

  • True, the worst of the snow had departed, but in its place had come freezing rain and the dread siege of lingering cold, augmented at times by high winds, but, even in its stillest form, capable of turning ears and noses and fingertips raw.

    The Lovers John Connolly 2009

  • No disorder took place during that transaction, and it was observed at that time that the stillest night ensued that Boston had enjoyed for many months.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • I used to swear that me putting the pencil to the paper would actually make them move, especially at the beach where I'd try to pick the stillest possible person in view.

    People and Things EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • But I think my favorite moment in the book is its stillest: “Desiderata on a Desert Island.”

    Half a List : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • I remember Josh saying, and watching him say it, “I think it's the stillest quiet in the world, like a graveyard at night, you know?”

    Playing Dead Matt Baker 2009

  • But I think my favorite moment in the book is its stillest: “Desiderata on a Desert Island.”

    2007 August : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath.

    Stillness by moonlight 2008

  • The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • This is, perhaps, the stillest she was for an hour.

    Gratuitous Cute Photos Zombie Mom 2008

  • Does it help the mother who thought her daughter was in the safest of places, and whose daughter is now in the stillest of graves?

    Michael Tonello: 217 Years Later 2008

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