How To Use Calm down In A Sentence

  • I had to go get a double shot of espresso to calm down.
  • Just calm down - shouting won't solve anything!
  • I could hear my little one screaming and then heard Ryan telling him to calm down and get mummy some flannels.
  • Once in awhile he'll tell me to calm down, tell me, 'Don't overswing.' USATODAY.com - Gifted pair revealing more for us
  • The video is extremely shaky, but Cooper and his crew are clearly under siege, and Cooper can be heard saying he's been hit, yelling "calm down" and talking to his camerawoman. WATCH: Anderson Cooper Egypt Attack Video
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  • Calm down, buddy [ old chap ] . What's the trouble?
  • Calm down! I've said I'm sorry.
  • So the next time you have a major presentation/meeting, calm down take deep breaths for at least one minute.
  • I know you detest them; hate doesn't do justice to how you must feel, but you have to calm down.
  • Calm down, there's nothing to worry about.
  • Presently, John was shouting for two technicians to calm down while simultaneously filing digital signals to the computer core.
  • We were wholly inconsolable; it took a good few days for us to calm down.
  • THE CLINIC WAS housed in an ancient hospital where crackpots and rummies went to calm down and dry out. The Almost Archer Sisters
  • He cleared his throat before saying, ‘Excuse me, sirs, but if you don't calm down, we're going to have to ask you to leave.’
  • Well, calm down my fellow Americans, their victory and their elation is short-lived because President Obama has many things to learn as President, as every new President does, but he has shown the ability to learn from a mistake, or learn from an experience in this case. James Boyce: Smug Stupid Republicans
  • Use some conditioner to calm down the wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • I took my sheet and wiped my face, starting to calm down and breathe normally again.
  • Perhaps you are trying too hard and need to calm down a little. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's okay, sweetie-pie, calm down for mommy, please.
  • Labeling the feeling helps both the yeller and the receiver calm down and get a bit of perspective.
  • Perhaps you are trying too hard and need to calm down a little. Times, Sunday Times
  • When trouble's brewing at Wandsworth prison, London, staff calm down stir-crazy inmates by serving up drinks with names such as Valerian Plus and Tranquillity.
  • Calm down and think carefully.
  • Calm down, for goodness sake. It's nothing to get excited about!
  • Just calm down, stop gabbling, and tell me what has happened.
  • He embarks on a rant about a late Evening Standard critic and fiddles with his lighter to calm down.
  • You'd better calm down and level your voice when you give a speech.
  • ‘Hey calm down’ I tried to pacify him, but before I knew it, I was up against the door, held at the collar.
  • There's no need to shout, for goodness' sake! Just calm down.
  • He just needs to calm down a wee bit.
  • Calm down there's no need to get into a lather about it!
  • Then an army officer came over, imploring the crowd to calm down and disperse. Times, Sunday Times
  • When it comes to love your emotions calm down just enough for you to handle relationships wisely. The Sun
  • Ian Moore has been doing well and the lads have all been telling him to calm down a bit.
  • On a hot May morning, I plodded along the forest track, waving at mosquitoes and hoping that the neurotic wood sandpipers would calm down.
  • To be sure I did, to calm down the pain; and that was what I call laudanum and Mr Briscoe here calls opium. Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
  • Calm down: Wayne Rooney should 'chillax' a bit ahead of the World Cup Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Harding-which had always seemed like the natural climax of the season-was premised on the title concept of the "return to normalcy": that is, after a period in which the country suffered its involvement in the gruesome Great War and went through a period of reformist upheaval at home, it was time for everyone to calm down and focus on quietly prospering. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Jack started to calm down, and the screams turned into whispered whines.
  • I wish everyone would calm down so I can try and catch up with what's going on and correct some of the thousands of embarrassing typos I'm certain are littering this report.
  • Calm down dear, it's only a super-injunction. The Sun
  • You really need to calm down and take life more stoically to reinforce your position.
  • Diminish inflammation. Resume from flu or quinsy. Release and calm down.
  • Calm down for a minute and listen to me.
  • Just calm down, stop gabbling, and tell me what has happened.
  • He actually came out and - when the crowd was booing and asked them to calm down.
  • Calm down, Natalie, I told myself forcefully as I yanked my hairbrush through my hair.
  • I thought about finding a box to put him in, and letting him get comfortable enough to calm down; but then I figured that the poor little fellow had seen enough trauma for one day, and there was no sense in prolonging it just because I wanted to take a picture with his head in it. June 3rd, 2005
  • The first-aider in that situation can help to perhaps calm down the situation, to remove people from the situation, to get rid of different stimuli, to learn body stance, what to say, what not to say, to try and de-escalate the situation.
  • But at this time of year, amid the hurly-burly of last-minute present-buying and travel, I do tend to calm down and think like one. Ingrid Newkirk: 2011 a Banner Year for Animals
  • I managed to calm down the old ticker and successfully netted the fish, a marvellous Rudd of one pound twelve ounces, nearly three times bigger than any that I had ever caught previously!
  • Within minutes of microblogging his rage, Wayne was able to calm down by posting a picture of his pug, which unremarkably looks strikingly similar to its owner, sucking on a dummy apparently belonging to son Kai. Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
  • She took a deep breath to force herself to calm down, and then checked the microscopic particle of osmium on the transfer platform. 365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Psychologists say that the best thing for a rager to do is to calm down. Get Out of My Way, You Jerk!
  • There's no need to shout, for goodness' sake! Just calm down.
  • After explaining myself to the very aggravated and annoyed teacher who had exclaimed upon my arrival that I had cut class everything seemed to calm down.
  • Just calm down - shouting won't solve anything!
  • It might be likened to a 90-pound weakling inciting a barroom brawl, between two drunkgiants, which was none of his business to begin with, and then jumping in and trying to stop their fight-to-the-death by rassling them both to the ground and holding them down until they sober up, calm down and regain their rational senses, none of which they have ever done in their lives. Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
  • It's against the notion that things calm down when we get older, when philosophy is supposed to kick in - that the body, the heart and sexual desire develop and age in the same way.
  • The pooja is to calm down the ferocious sea of the rainy season. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Oh look, I can understand him feeling very possessive about his budget, he's been working on it a long time, but I think he needs to calm down a bit.
  • He started rocking back and forth slightly, trying to get me to hush and calm down.
  • Wyatt: Calm down. You brought it up.
  • We should calm down about so-called radicalisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the case of Miss Gotbaum, she was extremely agitated, yelling and screaming, unconsolable, would not calm down. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2007
  • One cannot tell how long it takes him to calm down; the watches and clocks have stopped too.
  • Calm down! I've said I'm sorry.
  • Then an army officer came over, imploring the crowd to calm down and disperse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Calm down, there's nothing to worry about.
  • Calm down, Castle and Beckett shippers, she takes a liking to Esposito.
  • Well, now we can all relax, unclench, calm down, since Higher English is firmly in the past.
  • Diminish inflammation. Resume from flu or quinsy. Release and calm down.
  • She clenched her teeth against the pain that flooded through her and tried to calm down.
  • Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit. Comedy in Literature
  • Police, who were there attending to another incident, had asked him to calm down but he refused. Times, Sunday Times
  • As in this week's example: ‘New Zealand dog lovers can now source crystal collars harnessing the power of carnelian to give a boost to dogs lacking energy, or amethyst to calm down nervous pets.’
  • Calm down for a minute and listen to me.
  • Ritchie passed him the joint, sinking into his seat and exhaling as if trying to calm down.
  • Sihad had to calm down before he was able to say anything comprehensible.
  • Calm down, for goodness sake. It's nothing to get excited about!
  • You must try to calm down.
  • As with any sensitive skin program, look for products that contain anti-inflammatory ingredients such as allantoin and oatmeal that will help calm down both of your skin issues. Simple Skin Beauty
  • Calm down! Don't get so agitated.
  • You must try to calm down.
  • Shad everyone, calm down, for today we are at "full fuckin 'boondock. Troy Duffy is Video Blogging Boondock Saints 2 | /Film
  • Many try to avoid this depression by smoking either more crack or heroin to calm down.
  • Use some conditioner to calm down the wiry hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Presumably once we've gone the atmosphere she was talking about -- the vibes -- will all calm down again! HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • Phase 1 will calm down your adrenal glands, reducing the release of stress hormones that are keeping you fat. Times, Sunday Times
  • If she starts behaving badly I just walk away and let things calm down until her tantrum has gone away.
  • It took about six months for things to calm down after we had the baby.
  • Taking a few deep breaths to calm down, she swung her legs over the side of the cot and sat on the edge.
  • At any rate, I have now gleed myself into hyperdrive and I must calm down in order to get some work done today. Hear Ye, Hear Ye
  • I'm ashamed to say it took two or three takes for me to calm down. The Sun
  • She grabbed the nearest washrag and began to pat her face with it, trying to calm down.
  • Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit. Comedy in Literature
  • One wonders if they shouldn't ease up, calm down, breathe deep, get more securely grounded.
  • She was then put into an isolation unit to calm down. Times, Sunday Times
  • He just needs to calm down a wee bit.
  • Now, Ninja Cow, a fairly young Black Angus, is starting to calm down in Mr. Grell's small pasture. 'Ninja Cow' Had an Excuse for Udderly Unbovine Behavior
  • But the votaries of the political fringes need to calm down. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gradually, Adriana started to calm down until she was hiccuping softly with her hands in her lap.
  • Calm down now, " Jack said as he unseamed the man's brown robe with a Ka-Bar knife, then freed the Velcro straps of his bulletproof vest with a loud rip. Step on a Crack
  • During his last lesson of the day, Jerry was finally able to calm down after dealing with an ornery horse buyer who still thinks smoking in a barn is a safe idea.
  • This rush to surgery may calm down some after the recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine which found no advantage from arthroscopic surgery for the relief of osteoarthritic pain over less invasive treatments such as arthritic medications and physical therapy. SeMissourian.com Headlines
  • Calm down,’ I said, unsticking her hair from her clammy face.
  • Calm down," he told her firmly.
  • Calm down for a minute and listen to me.
  • Sugar (when taken in extreme in any form), confectioneries & even so called "normal" foods that was heavy on food colour (mostly reds & blues), & chemicals that we normally find around the home, including our common bath soap can be suspected as triggers so in comes the medications that was supposed to help them "calm down". FOOD ADDTIVES,DRUGS &; THE ADHD DIAGNOSED CHILDREN
  • You'd better calm down and level your voice when you give a speech.
  • It needed to calm down, to build character that is more than the sticky residue of their parts. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I was pregnant he didn't calm down, I hardly saw him as he was always out with his friends smoking pot.
  • Within half an hour the winds calm down, as cu's form over the launch and pilots report getting good climb rates under the cu's.
  • Just calm down - shouting won't solve anything!
  • Whatever the reason, Shuggy's behaviour eventually prompted a police caution, warning him that if he didn't calm down then he would be in serious trouble.
  • Perhaps you are trying too hard and need to calm down a little. Times, Sunday Times
  • Get the horse cut, if it doesn't calm down sell it.
  • I waited for her to calm down and get into a good position before telling me her dream.
  • The speech therapist tells them, in effect, to calm down and stop harping on it and it will go away.
  • The rest was a whirl of action and until I got home, it didn't calm down.
  • So, a small tip for the road rage - or should I say aisle rage trolley dashers - is to, next year, calm down a little.
  • That said, you make a decent point, and the jumpiest of us Obama supporters need to calm down, and save the outrage for any ads that may come out that are worthy of it. Obama And Dems Celebrate 73rd Anniversary Of Social Security With Hit On McCain
  • It enables you to think clearly simply because you calm down and permit oxygen to reach the brain again. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
  • Perhaps you are trying too hard and need to calm down a little. Times, Sunday Times
  • In coordination with or after failure of suasive means to deceive and calm down the aggrieved toiling masses, the exploiting classes can escalate the show and use of brute force from the level of private army and civilian armed gangs through the local police to any of the major services of the Armed Forces of the Naxalite Maoist India
  • Perhaps you are trying too hard and need to calm down a little. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rendell's agenda has largely become state law, you would think he would calm down or chill out.
  • I lost some weight last year in an effort to calm down my increasingly regular heartburn.
  • Labour, equally keen on personal attacks, none the less claimed the phrase "calm down, dear" was both patronising and, worse, sexist. David Cameron's 'calm down, dear' tarnishes the new Tory brand

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