Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonmoving
Adjective
  • Merging dining and design offers more product interaction than the static and leisurely pace of traditional furniture retail.
    John Wogan, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Zhang further explained that traditional anti-jamming techniques rely on static assumptions and often fail in rapidly changing conditions, causing serious performance losses.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Not at all motionless essence, but endless motion.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The video, which bears a watermark suggesting it was livestreamed on the video platform Kick, showed Jackson straddling Smith before repeatedly punching him in the face and the side of his head, even when Smith was lying motionless.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Greengrass uses the scene where the bus becomes stationary as an example of conveying feelings without being pedantic.
    Tomris Laffly, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Use a broom or vacuum cleaner with the rotating beater bar turned off (suction and stationary brush only).
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Male silverbacks were virtually immovable, acting as the displacing animal in more than 99% of interactions.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The not-in-my-backyard, or NIMBY, mindset was thought to be an immovable obstacle—support in theory, opposition in practice.
    Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In this model, our planet was covered for its first 2 to 3 billion years by a rigid, immobile outer shell with convection processes occurring beneath it in Earth’s mantle.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In general, sea anemones are known to keep their tube-like bodies relatively vertical and are considered immobile, researchers said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Prosecutors said police later identified Korosa from a community bulletin containing a still image from the CTA surveillance video.
    Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the richest, most enduring pleasures here are formal ones, beginning with the exacting still-life compositions and oily, vehement primary hues of Jenkins’ 16mm lensing, which can make a painterly subject of a maritime squall or a mustard-yellow wading boot.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Her son, Pax, 21, joined the audience in giving her a standing ovation following the film’s premiere.
    Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And scores of the world’s top auteurs came to compete with strong new titles — many of them instant Oscar contenders the moment the customary standing ovations wound down each night inside Venice’s Sala Grande cinema.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Really, the entire dynasty, the cloning, and the appearance of being never-ending, as an unmovable entity in the galaxy’s history, was but a poor attempt at being like Demerzel, the one truly constant in the galaxy’s history.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Deshaun Watson is also still stuck on the roster with a huge contract that has become unmovable.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
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“Nonmoving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonmoving. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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