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

She does not feel the breeze yet, for there is a little northerly in it, and the cliffs becalm her.”

From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.

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