becalm

Example Sentences

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“Every boundary is an illusion, constructed in order to becalm us, in order to give us the impressions of a definite place,” he has written.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2022

Even if this is true--can one flying man becalm Iran, North Korea and al-Qaeda?--he sounds as arrogant as a Wall Street CEO.

From Time • May 7, 2010

The fund also administers the Country House and Hospital, which is not equipped to accommodate any behavioral explosion since one of the principal missions here is to becalm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under two lower topsails and a reefed foresail the barque seemed to race with a long, steady sea that did not becalm her in the troughs. 

From The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph

Peace bade them try the milky way, But they were fearful 'twould becalm them; Cried Love, on dews of morning stray,— They deem'd 'twould from their purpose charm them.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 by Various