How To Use Becalm In A Sentence
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The Cats are underdogs for sure, but that unjustifiably huge spread is going to help motivate them and becalm the Pokes.
End up like a 'dog that's been beat too much (Jack Bog's Blog)
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But if the economy was still becalmed then the pressure for Plan B would be much harder to resist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doctor becalmed the agitated patient.
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The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
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As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Clerks in dusty stores moved with the majestic inertia of tall ships becalmed.
Michael Winship: Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe In
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High above, sheets of material hang like sails on a becalmed Spanish galleon.
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On the way, they were becalmed on the Island of the cattle of the sun.
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In trying to steer a course between education and entertainment, the show ends up becalmed, devoid of the giddy momentum that insight or cheap thrills would provide.
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He built a fort on Pigeon Island on which he perched his telescope; through which he squinted, discovering to unabated delight that his old French foe, Admiral De Grasse, was becalmed along with his naval fleet.
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It began as a routine supply mission to the front lines, in a volatile but largely becalmed city.
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Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle.
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His unbeaten 46, scored in typically uncomplicated fashion, took the pressure off the becalmed Di Venuto in what could prove to have been a vital partnership of 74 for the seventh wicket.
Durham 272-2, Nottinghamshire | County Championship day one match report
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The sun sets earlier in London than it did in Liverpool, an unexpected treat and one that helps becalm the city at its most frantic and frenetic period.
Archive 2006-11-01
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He put all his powers into sending a stronger wind into the sails of his own boat while his bewil - deled comrades in the suddenly becalmed ships called over the water, inquiring desperately the rea - son for his act.
The Weird of the White Wolf
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When his ship was becalmed for three days, his men grew alarmed, thinking that they had reached a shore and were in imminent danger of running aground.
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The constitutional renewal bill, now becalmed in parliament, is a ragbag of issues.
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Clerks in dusty stores moved with the majestic inertia of tall ships becalmed.
Michael Winship: Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe In
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We get going early to beat the williwaws and are soon becalmed.
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This would give them leeway to rest during days when it was against them, or they were becalmed with no wind at all.
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You'd almost describe the addition of the danceable element and becalmed melody-heavy tracks near the end as their polishing themselves up were it not for that such elements are rent asunder by the sheer bloody minded power of the fuzztone assault of Windett's guitar against the rhythm section's churning Kraut-disco inventiveness.
The Line Of Best Fit
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And so in a relatively becalmed August, the big news was that Cook made a simple call on the presidential race.
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No natural light ever pierces these dark recesses of my flat, neither does the soft spring breeze ever waft gently through their becalmed atmosphere.
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On the way home between Sardinia and Corsica the boat is becalmed and Newman writes a poem.
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Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle.
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Becalmed or storm-tossed, the view from the gallery's large windows is spectacular in any season.
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If we were to become becalmed on the tougher end that would be a problem because there wouldn't be enough hope.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shipping services company is one of the few to have survived the currency headwinds that have becalmed many global businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.
The Pursuit of Happiness
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His becalmed party needs to find the political wind again.
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And indeed, why should he have thought this difficult? seeing the herb ethiopis opens all locks whatsoever, and an echinus or remora, a silly weakly fish, in spite of all the winds that blow from the thirty-two points of the compass, will in the midst of a hurricane make you the biggest first-rate remain stock still, as if she were becalmed or the blustering tribe had blown their last.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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So while Morgan's stock doesn't deserve to trade at its current "going out of business" discount of about 40% to tangible book value, it runs the risk of being becalmed at a lowly valuation even when there is a chance for smoother sailing.
On SS Morgan, It's Half-Steam Ahead
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The fleet is becalmed at Aulis after its first abortive attempt because Agamemnon has angered the goddess Artemis by killing a stag in her sacred grove.
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We could bring inflation back to target more quickly but only by deflating the domestic economy at a time when consumer confidence is weak, the housing market is becalmed, taxes have just gone up and the public spending restraint you announced last year is about to suck demand out of the economy.
King to Osborne: be patient, trust us, and keep fingers crossed
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The government's announcement, however, did nothing to becalm the rand or bond market.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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That threat has injected new volatility into a market that had been becalmed for more than a year, raising new risks for producers, consumers and the economy as a whole.
U.S. Crude Oil Touches $100 a Barrel
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Just the broadcast of such a policy will have an enormous becalming effect on the markets.
Raymond J. Learsy: For an Effective U.S. Policy, Embargo Iran's Oil to Halt Its Nuclear Ambitions
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One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas.
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The short first beat to a dan buoy near the Steamboat Museum gave an indication of unpredictable conditions, some boats sailing steadily to the mark while others a short distance away were becalmed.
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Rudy Giuliani was quite happy to wrap his sweet arm around Bernie Kerik yet he refuses New Yorkers the basic human right to enjoy the becalming company of ferrets.
My Kingdom for a Ferret: James Wolcott
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With the wind already sapping from Forest's sails, the goal seem to becalm them completely.
Lloyd Sam strikes again to earn Leeds a point against Nottingham Forest
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_ At daylight passed within gun shot of one of the frigates, but she did not fire on us, perhaps for fear of becalming her as the wind was light.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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If, like me, you have spent endless summer afternoons sweatily becalmed in Long Island Sound, there's a lot to be said for a rail-down bash to windward, especially after it's over.
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But there is still a mood of becalmed apprehension in many sectors of the economy.
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Becalmed sounds of electric piano, bass, acoustic guitars, and soft trumpet tones appear at a tempo that's so relaxed it's almost asleep.
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According to analyst reports this is one of the few growth segments in the otherwise becalmed server market.
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He planned to keep them idle, like some ship's crew becalmed miles from shore.
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‘Chalky’ feels like spending time becalmed in an oleaginous ocean, noxious gas clouds occasionally swirling round in the dim light.
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She sailed in an age of Titans, while the caravel was a frolicksome pygmy, dancing to the music of a thousand winds, buffeted today, becalmed tomorrow, but always a snail on the face of the waters.
West Wind Drift
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The foresail was a large one, and it almost becalmed the jib.
All Adrift or The Goldwing Club
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Having become somewhat becalmed by the continuing economic challenges, he says that it is rowing its way back to growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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A woman reads in a becalmed rowing boat, her beehive hairdo and goggle glasses making her look like an exotic animal.
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Conversely, the 'ambient' tracks float in amorphous realms of drifting waves, each composition conjuring a realm of becalmed bliss.
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Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce.
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Quietude is a similarly becalmed sonic vista of placid sine-waves, nervous clicks and lithe atmospheric details.
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Menelaus recounts his own journey and tells how he was becalmed for twenty days.
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On the long haul to Scotland they even attempted to row the 36 ft long boat at a stage when they were becalmed on the east side of the Mull of Galloway.
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Ebia came from a tribe called the Gogodala, who lived in the Fly River area not far from where young Michael Rockefeller perished after swimming to shore from his becalmed sailboat.
One From The Hart
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But while others were finding themselves becalmed on Saturday, he was among the small number, including Angel Cabrera, Adam Scott, Charl Schwartzel and Bo Van Pelt, who came out of the undergrowth to snatch places near the top of the leaderboard.
Masters 2011: Lee Westwood and Luke Donald in fight to seize the day | Richard Williams
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The way this government is attacking my liberties no amount of antacids will becalm my ulcer, so a man in a position as influential as he is had better get his priorities straight if he wants to avoid my ire.
Is there any Z list celebrity TV challenge that Lembit Opik won't do ?
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He's becalmed in Fife now, a long way from the rattle of polyhedral dice and the clink of pint glasses that defined our shared youth.
Zornhau: Andy's "Magnetic North"
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Pardon me," he said, with a quietness that struck the company with a becalming awe.
Old Ebenezer
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Much of it floats in the North Pacific gyre, a becalmed patch of the ocean that covers a greater area than North America and now resembles a vast plastic soup.
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After a good first leg down to Beech Hill, Falcon turned first with a healthy lead but Pilgrim and Merrymaid hung on downwind before the whole fleet was becalmed south of Rampholme.
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There is a thunderstorm outside that may wash out the scheduled explosion; in the cantina, despite anxiety about the future, the talk remains close to becalmed.
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He trained his binoculars on a suspicious cluster of becalmed motorboats a half-mile off through the haze.
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I sit in that eerie phosphorescent tubal glow and lounge becalmed, thinking about the microwave emissions being bombarded into outer space like a gazillion ambassadors of tacky schlock.
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There are three pivotal points where the camera eddies around a becalmed Johnny who seems ready to disintegrate.
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Unlike the previous Thursday where the fleet was becalmed, there was plenty of wind with some heavy gusts.
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Just as I wasn't really the "solitary sailor, becalmed on the tractless seas of time," but, was, instead, a girl with a need to write a poem for a contest.
TwoP review of Planet of the Dead
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But I was not going to permit that if I could help it, and it soon became perfectly clear that we could, the schooner having the heels of the ship, although we were soon under the lee of the latter, with her sails partially becalming ours.
A Pirate of the Caribbees
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There are some laughs to be had here, but they are islands in a becalmed ocean.
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In many ways, the later years of a marriage are like Newton's theory of gravity, which says that two vessels becalmed and alone on the wide ocean will ineluctably drift together.
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In one report we had an Olympic swimming pool holding a meagre 1000 megalitres - a waist-high depth that would becalm Eamon Sullivan ( 'Angel', 4, drowns as plastic dam wall fails, page 17, November 25).
Craig Silverman: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections 2008
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To make the point, he recounted the tale of a group of English merchants who, when their ship was becalmed at the mouth of the Thames decided to go ashore in search of a good breakfast.
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There you are and there the ball is, and there's the net billowing ever so gently, like the sail of a becalmed ship.
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Of course, there are times when the weather doesn't change much; then you might be like a sail boat becalmed in the middle of the lake.
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After moving men and dunnage to the two ships, it seemed almost at the moment he was about to give the order to set sail, they were becalmed.
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When we got there he was becalming a hysterical middle-aged woman.
California Dreaming
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But most of the benefit of that devaluation has now worked through and the economy is still becalmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The transition from the dreamland of a becalmed sailing-vessel to the dull, cheerless realities of his old life, and the uncertainties of his future, depressed him—filled him with forebodings.
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The volunteer-crewed lifeboat was launched just after 9pm and reached the becalmed vessel, Stride, at 11.10 pm.
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Moussa Isa, and so the becalming was neither here nor there.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
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And, when the ship becomes becalmed, mutinous impulses begin to rumble beneath the surface.
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I can't becalm her with the weather brewing up as it is, and I certainly can't capsize the boat with a windblast.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Such a mission, he believed, would not only advance the cause of science but enhance American prestige, polish the Navy's image and "gratify the whole Christian world" not to mention impel his own becalmed career.
Old Salt, Dead Sea
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On reaching the Bay of Biscay the wind died down and we were becalmed for 9 days.
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Such a mission, he believed, would not only advance the cause of science but enhance American prestige, polish the Navy's image and "gratify the whole Christian world" not to mention impel his own becalmed career.
Old Salt, Dead Sea
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At times, the stage does seem slightly becalmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Stock Market was becalmed yesterday as dealers waited for company results.
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Kitaro is drawn into an intrigue which is seeing young women disappear courtesy of an unhappy spirit and embarks on a mission to either exorcise or becalm this miserable fantasm.
DVD Times
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I can't becalm her with the weather brewing up as it is, and I certainly can't capsize the boat with a windblast.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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One of the great things about the writing process for me is I don't really know the characters yet or indeed whether the plot will becalm one of them.
:Acquired Taste
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On the boat they were becalmed without sun or stars.
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The shipping services company is one of the few to have survived the currency headwinds that have becalmed many global businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
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My stomach got worse when the schooner was becalmed.
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On the 19th, at daylight, passed within gunshot of one of the frigates, but she did not fire on us, perhaps, for fear of becalming her, as the wind was light; soon after passing us she tacked, and stood after us -- at this time six sail were in sight, under all sail after us.
Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
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If, like me, you have spent endless summer afternoons sweatily becalmed in Long Island Sound, there's a lot to be said for a rail-down bash to windward, especially after it's over.
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Whitwell Harbour's becalmed shelter therefore came as a blessed relief, and I rattled off the boat as rapidly as possible.
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The becalmed dog sank to the ground.
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This also coincided with an eerily becalmed stage in my university career; after an exhausting period of immersive Keats and Shelley study, I was well up for test-driving the velveteen ache of beatific melancholia.
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Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce.
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As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed.
The Times Literary Supplement
