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stationary
a. fixed or immobile; not capable of being moved
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Suddenly, however, she became aware that one of the passing shadows remained stationary between her line of vision and the gleaming asphalt; and raising her eyes she saw a young woman bending over her.
2 Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.
3 For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that hideous sight is seen.
4 This terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their stationary fright.
5 At the same moment his companions suspended their efforts, and the chasing canoes clustered together, and became stationary.
6 Recovering his recollection on the instant, instead of sounding an alarm, which might prove fatal to himself, he remained stationary, an attentive observer of the other's motions.
7 A large black ball, which at first seemed stationary, now began to move in a manner that to the latter was inexplicable.
8 During that stationary instant, it poured forth its contents, in a bright, glancing sheet of flame.
9 The contest now grew warm and stationary.
10 The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
11 I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began to come towards us, and to grow and grow.
12 But it was stationary; and as the gentleman advanced into the light, I saw that he was some years older than when he had had his picture painted.
13 Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself.
14 But whether they were moving or stationary, whether they were French or Russian, could not be discovered from the Shevardino Redoubt.
15 The fact that a somewhat dilapidated blue one remained stationary above the unprotected bonnet attracted her attention, and looking up, she saw Mr. Bhaer looking down.
Example Sentence:
1 Every member of a church promises to remain orthodox, that is to say -- stationary.
2 When a warm or cold front stops moving, it becomes a stationary front.
3 An astronaut will attempt to leave the stationary spaceship and then return to it.