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

On an imaginary island off the coast of some enemy state that exists only in fantasy, a navy is becalmed.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2023

But it’s Mollie’s visage, radiant and eerily becalmed even when she’s bedridden, that keeps drawing your gaze; she’s the faint-flickering beam of light in a story of near-impenetrable darkness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

His desert-dry delivery and careful choice of words leaves many lines of questioning becalmed.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023

The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley