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

The constitutional question, so vital for the past decade, seems becalmed after the general election result.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024

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

Though De Roller is in constant motion — by foot, jet ski and prop plane as well as his cream-colored Mercedes — he is a curiously becalmed, passive figure.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

But the morning they were ready to leave Boston, they were becalmed.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham