How To Use Calmly In A Sentence

  • They have already, we note, calmly written their answer down some time before.
  • It was dishonourable to’ — ‘Peace, young man,’ said Herries, more calmly than I might have expected; ‘the word dishonour must not be mentioned as in conjunction with my name. Redgauntlet
  • Instead she would calmly await delivery and then show absolutely no disposition to praise a work that did not meet her standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Behind her she could hear Jack calmly telling everyone to go and shower and change and come back in full barrier gear.
  • Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook.
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  • He seems rather dithery but in fact he works very calmly and efficiently.
  • All this time the incognizable _nouveau_ was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes. The Enormous Room
  • The Swiss calmly wrapped up the victory on the first of three match points a game later.
  • She placed a hand on her sword hilt and calmly waited for Rae to make the first move.
  • They reconnoitred and calmly informed control what was needed.
  • You can think calmly about love and map out a great future for a relationship. The Sun
  • And I thought we were going to sit calmly discussing strategy for the evening ahead.
  • We went to the Ferris wheel first, where Mike was standing calmly socializing with my mom.
  • I cautioned calmly as I unstrung my bow, coiling the string.
  • As he reached the penalty area he calmly slotted the ball past the goalkeeper.
  • He calmly stated, My mast is on fire and I've lost my hydraulics. Boffman, Alan B.
  • Fouled hard by Walter McCarty and Rodney Rogers, Martin clenched his fists but calmly walked to the foul line to shoot his free throws. USATODAY.com - Nets' Martin cleans up game
  • Paquin calmly flays him with words; she makes it clear that this is not something she'll put up with and that he needs to get his head on straight and get on with it. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Romantics
  • She slapped his side with the flat of her blade, calmly adding injury to insult before walking away.
  • She felt a wave of panic, but forced herself to leave the room calmly.
  • Without rubbing his nose in the emotional frenzy he works himself into, try talking calmly to your boyfriend and take a stab at joint problem solving.
  • When a deadly snake, a black krait, slithered into my nursery and my ayah [Indian nanny] ran screaming from the room, her ankle bracelets chattering in panic, it was Yah Mohammed who calmly killed the krait.
  • When ordered to do so, he obediently drank a cup of poisonous hemlock and calmly died, having declared that he did not fear death since he could not know it to be an evil.
  • Launching into a diatribe against your rivals, or framing your case calmly while making it plain you understand the other fellow's points of view? Times, Sunday Times
  • MOVE calmly and quietly around any dog. The Sun
  • Choking back my anger, I tried to speak calmly.
  • Kevin pitched the ball and Ryan calmly bunted the ball just far enough for it to count.
  • The mod blustered for a bit, trying to discount Sterling's objection - which Sterling stated very calmly, despite her anger. Tew's Day!
  • The French military calmly withdrew long enough to launch an air strike that dropped napalm on the exposed Italian troops.
  • He saw his arrow hit its mark and calmly unstrung his bow before replacing it in his quiver.
  • But I would suggest talking calmly to your wife in private and confiding your feelings before you do anything else.
  • She replied to their angry question by calmly walking out of the room.
  • Encountering him there, Dinah calmly tells him that she can not do without him-it is the divine will that they marry.
  • The man sat calmly in the rigid plastic chair, his hands paced lightly on the cheap desk in front of him.
  • Suntanned and relaxed, looking calmly about the room, he appeared completely in command.
  • The districts attacked regard them very quietly and calmly. Times, Sunday Times
  • I suppose I can come in now," she says calmly to the bow-tied gateman. Society Meets The Sixties
  • Then, above our heads soared three eagles, and not long after, an adder slithered calmly between our feet.
  • When Deacon did get on he calmly drilled over a sideline conversion with his only shot at goal.
  • They had informed the police who had reacted calmly enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • Radiant Ashley Olsen lounged calmly on a couch, Foxy Brown spilled out of her bandeau top, SNL's Kenan Thompson took up a banquette, and Naomi Campbell drifted across the dance floor.
  • You can stick closely to what you know is fair, speak calmly and make others feel their views count. The Sun
  • After taking out some 20 tiddlers, the heron flapped off, only to be replaced by a kingfisher who calmly took another ten from all round my float before moving off.
  • As far as I have heard, the passengers, crew and authorities all acted calmly and appropriately," said Ian S. Lustick, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Trapped in the War on Terror," a 2006 book that criticized what he called the exaggerated response to terrorism. Post-gazette.com - News
  • Chintithpit-mang glimpsed the black man standing calmly, arms at his sides, in the instant before the guns tore him apart. I Don’t Understand ?
  • We don't find Achilles any the less interesting because we doubt the ability of any degenerate modern to calmly destroy such outnumbering hosts of his fellow beings, and send such a throng of warrior souls to hades without scath or scar to his invulnerable self. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • She calmly flicks her ash into the ashtray on the window sill and turns back towards me. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head.
  • DiPietro flashed his pad to stop the shot, but Brylin calmly lifted in the rebound at 12: 26. USATODAY.com - Hockey - New Jersey vs. N.Y. Islanders
  • And so, while the Western races had squabbled and fought, and world-adventured against one another, China had calmly gone on working at her machines and growing. THE UNPARALLELED INVASION
  • He followed her calmly towards the stakes where the other horses were tethered and being watched.
  • The rookies are being put through a gas-attack drill, in which they must calmly put on their protective masks, after one of the supervising officers has hurled a canister in through one of the Portakabin windows.
  • He immediately returned to his launch position, calmly informed the aircrew of the situation, and directed them on the safest method of egressing the aircraft.
  • You react calmly to changes at work and show what you can really do. The Sun
  • Once the leash is attached, it is important to make the shih-tzu walk calmly toward the door.
  • Connolly drags you screaming to the edge of the abyss, then calmly pushes you in.
  • Instead of fleeing he walked right into the house next door and calmly walked into a ramshackle apartment he had hired there.
  • On his return to Prague he calmly dropped a political bombshell. Times, Sunday Times
  • We ask residents in the areas near power plants to act calmly. The Sun
  • He calmly stepped onto the platform.
  • Calmly, patiently, even avuncularly in "After the Hangover," I quote the obituaries for conservatism, pausing to note the obvious: The conservative corpse has arisen again. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
  • Without a word to anyone, she calmly went indoors, picked up a red-hot iron and cauterized the wound herself. Five Best: John Matteson
  • He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.
  • My wife's head was pointed in the direction of the closest window to my left and I only smiled calmly with appreciation as the covers of her sheets climbed up her shoulders in a warmth embrace.
  • I have libation to offer, as you see," Razoxane said calmly. NIGHT SISTERS
  • With a yelp of pain, he started hopping on one foot, glaring and cursing at the tree, which stood calmly and impassively before him.
  • They fanned out in a line, calmly firing volley after volley of automatic gunfire at shoppers running into the building in search of somewhere to hide. Times, Sunday Times
  • But she needed both eyes open to stare down the pressmen's union during a turbulent strike, build the Post into a media powerhouse and calmly preside over the premier newspaper in the nation's capital.
  • The bird hopped from one perch to the next, calmly inspecting the passing walls and handrails.
  • While Buckley calmly declares Hefner's out to "annul" the moral code, Hefner attempts to claim he was not rejecting or attacking monogamy, which is quite simply lying. The Patriot Post
  • Nathan stood at the entrance to the room, calmly surveying the scene in front of him.
  • In what can be a very pressurised environment, call operators work calmly and effectively to reassure the caller while gaining vital information which can be relayed to police officers.
  • His dramatic compositions of bridge pilings, freeway foundations and steel frameworks are as calmly sculpturesque as a Greek Kouri yet still create a sense of unease.
  • Dog's can't calmly explain that they're in a bad mood or don't feel well or are overstimulated and need some peace.
  • He was playing a game of dominoes on the second level in the second level bleachers in the stadium inside the dome when he calmly got up.
  • They had informed the police who had reacted calmly enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perfectly calmly, reasonably, and without visible emotion, they were rehearsing a formula which even I, ignorant staff-walloper that I was, could see was one for disaster. The Sky Writer
  • To which provoking words, one amongst them, called Forgier, an honest fellow of his person and a notable springal, made answer very calmly thus: How long is it since you have got horns, that you are become so proud? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • When a deadly snake, a black krait, slithered into my nursery and my Indian nanny ran screaming from the room, her ankle bracelets chattering in panic, it was Yah Mohammed who calmly killed the krait,’ she explains.
  • When it looked like things might turn ugly with a crowd disturbance, he dealt with it calmly. Times, Sunday Times
  • She replied calmly, the blonde tresses curled in adorable ringlets around her making her face glow.
  • All we had to do was to press the button, quietly and calmly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Either the senior pastor or the worship leader needs to be prepared to calmly reassert control before things get out of hand. Christianity Today
  • After skillfully ducking and dodging the two shoes hurled at his face at his final press conference in Baghdad, our dodger and ducker-in-chief calmly reported the size of the famous shoes. David's Flying Shoes v. Goliath's Bloody Ruse
  • The decision of how to proceed should have been made cooly and calmly, and after all of the pertinent experts had been consulted. Are we really this dumb?
  • On both occasions the monk took a firm but unaggressive stance and spoke calmly to the animal, which crashed off into the underbrush.
  • But as he had met life, so he now met death -- calmly and unrepiningly, certain that hard as it had been hard as it seemed now, it must yet be for the best -- the solving of the riddle he left to God. Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls
  • Drake looked at her as he never thought that he could have looked at her -- calmly, waitingly. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
  • She reacted surprisingly calmly to the news of his death.
  • The man just got out of the car, casually took his coat off, threw it into the car, calmly walked around to the car in front and lamped the driver.
  • I have a hard time believing that he was calmly lecturing others on his lifestyle choice, and it was probably causing the distractions that the school claimed.
  • They had informed the police who had reacted calmly enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • Calmly the dog shifted the angle of his muzzle, creating an invisible guyline that eased the child back an inch or two towards equilibrium. Excerpt: Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
  • Instead, he put his hands behind his head, leaned back and looked at me very calmly, almost sleepily. SILENT JOE
  • Instead, he saw the men walking calmly, saw them carefully scanning the terrain ahead of them, muskets ready to fire.
  • Janice, being the tactful veterinarian that I have grown to admire, calmly explained the situation to me in practical terms.
  • He told himself calmly that those words had absolutely no sense which had seemed to rise murmurously from the dark. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • He was angry but managed, with great self-restraint, to reply calmly.
  • She does this by talking quietly and calmly, never rushing a client and by using a gentle yet assured touch.
  • My teacher, however, was an exceptionally patient man, and every piece of wood I miscut, every nail I hammered in wrong, he calmly sorted out for me, removing the nail and putting it back straight, planing my hacked at wood. Catching Up Again « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Doc Charlie would casually flirt with the nonchalant female who would ever so calmly refuse.
  • They had informed the police who had reacted calmly enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • I wasn't screaming or shouting or exclaiming, just calmly saying the truth.
  • They had informed the police who had reacted calmly enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • My stepmother calmly looked at me and pressed a perfectly manicured fingertip to her temple.
  • As the ball found its way to him, he chested it down and calmly volleyed it towards the goal.
  • He took guard again and proceeded to move calmly from the 59 required to get to the thousand towards a fourth hundred of the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
  • He seems rather dithery but in fact he works very calmly and efficiently.
  • A few miles further on they will drive calmly past the carnage they have caused, and remark primly to each other ‘Oh dear!’
  • Calmly standing in the stall was a chocolate brown blood mare, a splash of white coloring her forelocks and spreading down to the knee on her front left leg.
  • The Japanese have acted calmly and deliberately.
  • As more Stuttgart players were drawn towards him, his reverse pass wrong-footed the entire defence to leave Giggs scampering clear before rolling his shot calmly beyond Hildebrand.
  • Heading into court in traditional Fijian sulu skirt, Speight looked calmly confident.
  • People “took death calmly,” Ariès stresses: “they were as familiar with the actual dead as they were familiarized with the idea of their own death.” In the Valley of the Shadow
  • Thus left alone, with my reason disinthralled, disenchanted, I surveyed more calmly the extent of the actual peril with which we were threatened, and the peril seemed less, so surveyed. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
  • They cope calmly with stressful situations as though there were no real threat. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
  • Once they had lost the old bag, the six calmly went down the stairs.
  • So calmly was it done, so imperturbable were all the black countenances, that I half began to conjecture that the chaplain himself intended it for a hymn, though I could imagine no propsective rhyme for trouble unless it were approximated by debbil, which is, indeed, a favorite reference, both with the men and with his Reverence. Army Life in a Black Regiment
  • But when it really mattered, and with an air of anticipation filling the ground, Benn calmly slotted the ball straight between the sticks from the left touchline.
  • ‘Despite society's best efforts - or perhaps because of them - most teenagers are romantics at heart,’ Anne replied calmly.
  • Instead he calmly fianchettoes a bishop and argues the he can attend to things like development later in the game.
  • He spoke calmly to them trying to pour oil on troubled waters but it was useless.
  • Sophos has warned users not to panic regarding a serious security vulnerability found in versions of Microsoft Windows, but to calmly ensure all computers are correctly patched.
  • Either the senior pastor or the worship leader needs to be prepared to calmly reassert control before things get out of hand. Christianity Today
  • I stood up and smiled back, gave Jim a nod and calmly began to make my way over to the exit.
  • As for the man himself, it remains to survey thoughtfully the whole range of possibilities, to keep the mind open and receptive to impressions, to experiment but take firm hold in so doing, to tackle each new task with as much enthusiasm as if it were to be his life work, to ask for difficult assignments rather than soft snaps and to be calmly deliberate, rather than rashly hasteful, in appraising his own capabilities. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2
  • I'll admit Milinazzo kind of goaded them both, and I wish he'd interject a little less aggressively and more calmly, because he was right - when Caulfield droned on (OMG did he …) about salaries of other cities 'mayors and CMs (mostly mayors - not sure how relevant that is, since as the Mr. said to me, ya don't need a degree to become mayor) … anyway, Left In Lowell
  • There were no histrionics, no climbing through the stands to greet her family and friends. Instead, Li sat calmly on her chair and let it all sink in.
  • Harnak made himself speak calmly, but disbelief and hope warred in him.
  • The Japanese have acted calmly and deliberately.
  • He could calmly ingest what was being said, absorb it, then reach over for the phone, call Jim, and find out what was happening, and what he should do.
  • Chiefs of Departments sat at their desks, concentrated upon problems or at ease, according to the demands of the moment; televisotypes and recorders flashed busily but silently; calmly efficient men and women went wontedly about the all-embracing business of Triplanetary's space-pervading Secret Service. Triplanetary
  • I can then speak calmly to him. Times, Sunday Times
  • He would have found these Confederates standing calmly in the open field, waiting the command to rush upon Hancock's advancing legions, and filled with more anxiety for Lee's safety than for their own, thus exhibiting that true intrepidity which is begotten only in bravest breasts amid greatest perils. Reminiscences of the Civil War
  • Surely they were all violating the principle of equal rights by debarring women from citizenship rights, and thereby calmly depriving half of the human race of the right to participate in the formation of the laws. The Snowbank
  • She took it calmly at first but under the surface was seething.
  • Learn natural relaxation techniques to help you cope with stressful situations more calmly. The Sun
  • OK, time-out, everyone, let's all quiet down and talk about this calmly.
  • He sat calmly smoking a cigarette, his eyes upturned in placid and Oriental contemplation of the heavens. Tish
  • She studied it scientifically, then calmly wrenched off the lid and stared curiously at the thick red liquid inside.
  • The experienced official calmly walked over to his far side linesman and consulted him before pointing to the half-way line and sending the Dundee fans into raptures.
  • Because it calmly and with good science assures us that life on Earth will continue long after Homo sapiens is gone, even if Homo sapiens will have forever altered the course of evolution. "No moon, no pale reflection."
  • You can talk things through calmly without making demands and find a fairer way of dealing with cash and other shared responsibilities. The Sun
  • As he opened his mouth, I expected him to yell at me, but, instead, he said calmly, ‘I had apprenticed… as a carpenter.’
  • Calmly and maturely relay to her specific instances of when you've felt ignored or unfairly blamed.
  • Speaking calmly, directly and unemotionally, the boy said the alleged molestations occurred two days apart.
  • He picked out Mark O'Brien and the full forward calmly stroked the ball into the net.
  • He speaks calmly: if you are a king, there is no need to shout all the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • And I was wondering, as I always do with plot devices like this, why the human characters deal so calmly with the appearance of toons.
  • I think the king's grief carried away some of his reason – it sometimes happens so, you know – for when Hari sent him a faqir to tell him that the gods had punished him for being so happy and foretasting heaven on earth, and that he must atone by becoming a Sadhu himself, he objected not, but listened calmly and obeyed. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • So she calmly sat down with deaconess Pat Phillips to plan the funeral.
  • You react calmly to changes at work and show what you can really do. The Sun
  • Red Indians, while they were still unaffected by white men, would smoke their pipes, not calmly as we do, but orgiastically, inhaling so deeply that they sank into a faint. Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture
  • Calmly but firmly insist on stepping into a private office or conference room where you will attend to his concerns.
  • Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony. Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy
  • They make their way down to the river, walk into the water up to their shoulders, swim across the deeper channel in the middle, their antlers waggling above the ripples, and calmly walk out again on the other side.
  • Behind her she could hear Jack calmly telling everyone to go and shower and change and come back in full barrier gear.
  • She walked slowly and calmly up to the front of the church and genuflected, and before walking up to the podium, stopped and placed a hand on the cloth-draped coffin.
  • He calmly reached into his pocket with his free hand and removed a bottle of pills, which he opened.
  • But Murakami's narration moves along calmly and without clutter or artifice.
  • I can stop this only if you are willing to talk to me calmly and sort out everything without threats.
  • Calmly, I told him we were treading on difficult terrain here.
  • She covered her retreat nobly, made a curtsey to the priests, genuflected calmly, laid down the aspergill, and, under pretence of having been sent for something which these careless priests had forgotten, retired with honors; and then I suppose had a good long cry. My New Curate
  • She felt a wave of panic, but forced herself to leave the room calmly.
  • She said, calmly, as if police visits were routine at Sionnet, "Oh, uh-huh, Mr. D. said you'd be by. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • From the beach, we watch a loggerhead turtle swimming calmly through the clear turquoise water.
  • The advantages of a window seat now become apparent: not only are you less likely to be stunned by descending luggage, you can also sit calmly and take your time.
  • Unlike other systems that stroppily tell you to make a U-turn, it calmly and almost invisibly replots the route.
  • These "hwang" cliffs, or dirt-cliffs, are full of caves and crevices, but the good priest could see no convenient cave, and he had therefore no alternative but to boldly face his fate, and like a brave man calmly meet what he could not avoid. Historic Girls
  • The midfield trialist had the time and space to calmly stroke the ball into the unguarded net.
  • I think you need a devoted nounou and one of those lovely well-behaved children that walk calmly around the Park Monceau in tweed Bondpoint outfits practising their times tables (rather than my semi-feral brood) to be worthy of it .. Smoke
  • And even though we both have extreme theatrical proclivities in other words, we’re drama queens, in this instance, we just sort of calmly knew. Living Justice
  • They went on calmly squatting in their golden pipes and didn't react at all.
  • Victor, a tall wiry man with beady eyes and a villainous curly black goatee, announced calmly, unsmiling.
  • After bolting from a highway cop to give the two bored drivers something exciting to do in a lonely, desolate stretch of America, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) calmly whips his obscenely red convertible into a standstill to allow the custodian of justice ownership of the moment. Top 10 Gary Busey Performances » Scene-Stealers
  • But the deeper effect of seeing the world from a different perspective, of calmly abiding in a topsy-turvy, upside-down world, may be the most profound benefit of all.
  • When the birds scattered, the ospray had vanished, and the waters again glittered calmly in the morning sun. Tales From Two Hemispheres
  • Without any effort to disguise his intentions, Eoin Kelly stepped up to calmly rifle the ball to the net.
  • He calmly walked up to her a mischievous smile on his winsome face.
  • Choking back my anger, I tried to speak calmly.
  • Conversations go much better now you can think clearly and talk calmly without letting emotions get in the way. The Sun
  • Learn natural relaxation techniques to help you cope with stressful situations more calmly. The Sun
  • Soeur Gabrielle Rosnet is a small round active woman, with a shrewd and ruddy face of the type that looks out calmly from the dark background of certain Flemish pictures. Fighting France
  • Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
  • The first hour on Wednesday saw a procession of men dressing in bibs of a bilious yellow passing calmly and majestically behind the bowler's arm.
  • We stood there in the vet clinic with one of the assistants calmly considering the possible reptilian culprits - rattler, cottonmouth, or copperhead.
  • he spoke calmly to the rioting students
  • Perpetua watched him as calmly as a martyr of old days watched the advance of the doomsman. The Proud Prince
  • The box chirped as it opened to reveal a small program disc which Xavier calmly palmed into his pocket.
  • The facts could then be calmly considered without threats or unnecessary troop movements. Times, Sunday Times
  • She calmly put on her gloves she had brought her own, and proceeded to behead, disembowel, and phlebotomize this poor fish. It takes a village
  • Unilateral empire might work today if the world beyond America's borders were populated by five billion Buddhist monks, willing to calmly endure.
  • A woman, impossibly beautiful, hanging twenty stories in the air, calmly brushes her teeth in close-up on a video screen.
  • You can think calmly about love and map out a great future for a relationship. The Sun
  • Instead, she found Madelyn calmly channel-surfing and her father scratching his head and looking at a small slip of paper.
  • I calmly acknowledge all the greetings with a wave or smile and continue towards my locker.
  • And as for figure and extension, I leave it to anyone that shall calmly attend to his own clear and distinct ideas to decide whether he had any idea intromitted immediately and properly by sight save only light and colours: or whether it De possible for him to frame in his mind a distinct abstract idea of visible extension or figure exclusive of all colour: and on the other hand, whether he can conceive colour without visible extension? A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
  • I calmly replied, ‘Gee sir, those are switches… the patch panel is over here.‘
  • You can think calmly about love and map out a great future for a relationship. The Sun
  • Very calmly say what you had in mind, then firmly change the subject. Times, Sunday Times

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