How to use "stillness" in a sentence

Areas of bush and a few trees still smoked, and the houses towards Woking station were sending up tongues of flame into the stillness of the evening air.

The fear I felt was panic - terror not only of the Martians but of the dark and stillness all around me

I had no regrets about this, but in the stillness of the night, with a sense that God was near, I thought again of every part of our conversation from the time we had first met

But it was not the stillness of death - it was the stillness of expectation

I turned down St John's Wood Road and ran away from this terrible stillness.