becalmed

Example Sentences

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The merger, coming at a time when the drinks industry is becalmed, would offer savings for investment to get some momentum into struggling sales, Jefferies analyst Edward Mundy told clients in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

First seen cycling his city’s streets day and night with a becalmed sense of ownership, Holland’s Roger is a die-hard Brooklynite none too happy with the smoothing over of his cherished neighborhoods by “obscene” money.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

In contrast to Stoinis’ powerful striking, Warner was relatively becalmed.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

Distracted by the recent death of his wife — whose loss he medicates by reading his sappy scribblings aloud to a rapt writing group — Sanders seems drained and becalmed.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023

In the heat of being becalmed he had burned and begun to tan, and now with the wind and the spray of a night and half a day his body had become weathered and brown-gold.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen