Stilled

On a hard-dirt landing strip near the northeastern city of Kobani, I waited with two long lines of U.S. Special Forces soldiers behind a huge C-17 aircraft, its mighty engines temporarily stilled.

Then COVID hit, the world stilled for a while, and a new directorship came onboard, ready to fight another fight.

In the context of the chaos, the plight of one quiet boy stilled the noise we have been drowning in and brought blessed reassurance we're unlikely to forget.

Maybe that doesn’t seem so extreme, but when was the last time you put away your phone, shut your eyes, stilled the mental whirl of worries, statistics and undone errands, and just listened?

Next, she recommended taking three deep breaths and keeping track of each inhale and exhale until your mind has stilled.

A “gag order” — something that seems like an oxymoron for a public-facing, public-serving news company to adopt — apparently has stilled any comment.

It seems impossible that voice is stilled which I have loved to hear for fifty years.

The greatest form of White Tower punishment, Aes Sedai avoid even looking at the stilled as the mere idea of being separated from the One Power (the source of their elite status, as well as the experience of channeling) is so distasteful.

Those who have been stilled, gentled or "burned out" experience deep depression and most often eventually die, wasting away in apathy.

When Oceanus tossed the bowl about, Heracles threatened him and stilled his waves.