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

Ah, Lambkin; with closed ears thou dost not becalm sight and wit, they cease not to fructify under suasion of childhood impregnations.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton

My Lord, I am making a sail according to your lordship's plan, to becalm the hull of the ship, but want sailcloth for completing it.

From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Dundonald, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of