Sentences with phrase «motionless day»

To put this in more practical terms, if you were to sit while fidgeting all day, you would burn about 600 more calories than if you sat motionless all day.

At one wreck the same mutton snapper, 10 pounds of mute and stupid curiosity, hangs motionless day after day, watching over his shoulder.

Not exact matches

After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower rate of death from all causes than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).

Others lie depressed and motionless on the ground all day, their intelligent, social minds broken by the misery of confinement.

On St. Patrick's day in Vero Beach, Fla., a 20 - year - old pitcher from South Korea wearing a green Los Angeles Dodger cap (he had no idea what that was all about) rocked back from the pitching rubber, brought both hands high above his head and stopped, motionless as an oil painting.

As I laid motionless on a couch for two straight days, sipping hot chocolate, watching previews for Trista and Ryan's wedding while reading the latest Women's Home Journal, which I picked up because it had Kelly Ripa on the cover, I began to think that I had lost my game.

Throughout the day, the spiders remain motionless on their web, prepared to pounce on their next meal.

Young antelope can spend the better part of the day lying crouched and motionless in tall grass, their ears tucked and heads pressed against the ground.

Even an eight - hour flight can cause life - threatening blood clots; five days of sitting motionless could be a killer.

Similarly, birds from the genus Nyctibius, with bark - colored plumage, masquerade as tree stumps by sitting motionless during the day.

He's spent whole days in this and other wetlands of Dutchess County, sitting motionless in a canoe or on the bank.

«Too many children spend their days motionless, transfixed by glowing screens.

Stunned by the sudden death of his wife, the bereaved husband spends the better part of the day sitting motionless in a chair trying to grasp his new reality.

Late one afternoon I was sitting motionless after the final bell, trying to recover from another day, recounting the horrors, clinging to the few fond memories, and counting it a success because I had survived to count it at all.

Many have simply given up, and sit motionless amid the fields as corroding reminders of the glory days of gushers and wildcatters and instant fortunes.

One day, Jess spent six hours spread untidily across her bedroom floor, chin in hand, motionless except for the movement of her other hand going back and forth across the page.

Fortunately, it had either eaten recently or was simply too hot to hunt this day and my guide's stick remained motionless by his side, but ever - ready should it be needed to provide whatever little resistance it could muster.

For example, suppose the air was at one time completely motionless, and suppose as little as 1 % of the solar input went to creating wind; in just one day the global windspeed would reach 8m / s; and that's it, the wind store is full.