stilly
IPA: stˈɪɫi
adjective
- silent; calm
adverb
- While still and calm.
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Examples of "stilly" in Sentences
- I'm stilly very new to this stuff.
- There is no night in the "stilly" sense at a mine.
- Having an argument in front of a third party is stilly.
- The stilly murmur of the distant Sea Tells us of silence.
- He looks down the hall at the remaining plastic sheet hanging stilly in the dry air.
- GB's so stilly thinking no one would notice his hand in scrapping the 10p tax rate for the poorest part of our community.
- Both of the federal party committees are stilly carrying debt from the 2006 election cycle -- $5 million for the DCCC, $6 million for the DSCC.
- Nowhere does the night seem more "stilly," or the sense of seclusion more profound, than in the middle of the broad bay on a midsummer night before or after the theatre-goers have crossed.
- For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems.
- Barack Obama is different, not a political practitioner, really, but something else, and not a warm-blooded animal but a cool, chill character, a fish who sits deep in the tank and stares, stilly, at the other fish.
- The interest becomes intense; the wrongful heir draws his sword, and rushes on the rightful heir; a blue smoke is seen, a gong is heard, and a tall white figure (who has been all this time, behind the arm – chair, covered over with a table – cloth), slowly rises to the tune of ‘Oft in the stilly night.’
- Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs and snug crevices among the rocks, -- big, noisy, harmless fellows, that had procreated the year gone, lain frozen through the winter, and were now rejuvenated to buzz through swift senility to second death.
- Also, I'm told -- and I'm really in no position to know how true this is -- that African-Americans are stilly fairly rare in the elite forces like First Recon, Delta, and the SEALS, and that programs like THE UNIT tend to exagerate their percentage I seem to recall one writer claiming that there are actually more Asian-Americans in Delta and the SEALS than there are African-Americans.