How To Use becalmed In A Sentence
- 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.
- There you are and there the ball is, and there's the net billowing ever so gently, like the sail of a becalmed ship.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are some laughs to be had here, but they are islands in a becalmed ocean.
- 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
- Unlike the previous Thursday where the fleet was becalmed, there was plenty of wind with some heavy gusts.
- There are three pivotal points where the camera eddies around a becalmed Johnny who seems ready to disintegrate.
- 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.
- He trained his binoculars on a suspicious cluster of becalmed motorboats a half-mile off through the haze.
