How To Use Becalmed In A Sentence
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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 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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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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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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There are some laughs to be had here, but they are islands in a becalmed ocean.
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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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Unlike the previous Thursday where the fleet was becalmed, there was plenty of wind with some heavy gusts.
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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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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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He trained his binoculars on a suspicious cluster of becalmed motorboats a half-mile off through the haze.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Menelaus recounts his own journey and tells how he was becalmed for twenty days.
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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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Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce.
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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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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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The Stock Market was becalmed yesterday as dealers waited for company results.
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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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Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce.
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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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The becalmed dog sank to the ground.
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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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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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My stomach got worse when the schooner was becalmed.
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The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
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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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On the boat they were becalmed without sun or stars.
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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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At times, the stage does seem slightly becalmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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And, when the ship becomes becalmed, mutinous impulses begin to rumble beneath the surface.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We get going early to beat the williwaws and are soon becalmed.
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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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The constitutional renewal bill, now becalmed in parliament, is a ragbag of issues.
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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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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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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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On the way home between Sardinia and Corsica the boat is becalmed and Newman writes a poem.
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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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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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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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On the way, they were becalmed on the Island of the cattle of the sun.
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High above, sheets of material hang like sails on a becalmed Spanish galleon.
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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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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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The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
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The doctor becalmed the agitated patient.
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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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The foresail was a large one, and it almost becalmed the jib.
All Adrift or The Goldwing Club
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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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‘Chalky’ feels like spending time becalmed in an oleaginous ocean, noxious gas clouds occasionally swirling round in the dim light.
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He planned to keep them idle, like some ship's crew becalmed miles from shore.
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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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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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But there is still a mood of becalmed apprehension in many sectors of the economy.
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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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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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One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas.
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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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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 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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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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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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His becalmed party needs to find the political wind again.
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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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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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Becalmed or storm-tossed, the view from the gallery's large windows is spectacular in any season.
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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.
