How to Use still life in a Sentence

still life

noun
  • She prefers portraiture to still life.
  • Pinned down while there is still life to be lived.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • The camera guys are there painting a still life.
    — Deadline, 21 Nov. 2025
  • What this translates to is a lot of skulls and mirrors and still lifes.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But they are drawn to still life, so a lot of my artwork now is centered on still life.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Most people would have seen a standard-issue still life of fruit.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
  • The shows featured his oil paintings of landscapes and still lifes.
    — Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2024
  • What led you to focus on portraits, still life and landscapes in your work?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2022
  • For a brief moment, the scene transformed into a black-and-white still life.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This is in contrast with the very smooth fluid brushwork of the rest of the still life scene.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • And then the sand is like this blank canvas, and the people on it are the objects in a still life.
    — Kelsey Schagemann, Midwest Living, 22 May 2026
  • But in the inbetween, there are so many polaroids of still life with John.
    — Holly Gleason, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Her exquisite miniatures and still lifes alone are worth the journey.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Image The still lifes are built around themes, and some seem straightforward.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • Our king bed is a canvas for a still life of colorful pillows and blankets.
    — Sam Harper, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Another painting set to make a record is a still life by Davidsz.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The leather versions of the styles also appear in still life imagery as part of the campaign.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • If there is still life in the device, the data is wiped and the item is refurbished for reuse.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • Beyond still life art, produce has more recently become a bright light in the world of decor.
    — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The Clippers had taken another blow, but there is still life left.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
  • If his dreams had taken the night train, and the train had crashed with none of them surviving, there was still life after death.
    — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The entire wall by the bed is consumed by a picture window framing a not-so-still life of the forest.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
  • We were taught still-life drawing in high school, but still life has no precedent in the Middle East.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 7 May 2026
  • The roasting machine is on display in the back half of the space, with sacks of beans laid out in a kind of still life (with surfboard).
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The still life in the kitchen is by Laura Letinsky, who is Canadian.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Dark cabinet lowers and storage columns pick up on the dark green in the still life but don't overwhelm the room.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Drawing and Painting Do some still life paintings and portraits in the yard.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 16 June 2020
  • And in the basement, cops found that still life of Tom's world, interrupted by madness.
    — CBS News, 2 June 2018
  • Last year, this cheeky series about the undead was among the crop of new shows proving that there's still life left in the network sitcom.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The production has put her in an apartment of modernist grays save for a large still life of lemons above the dining room table.
    — Ryan McGinley; Styling By Yashua Simmons, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Jan. 2021

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