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How to use becalm in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word becalm? Here are some examples.

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Perhaps it was asking too much of the stewards to becalm the inevitable throng.
But the legacy of the London Games may lie in something more imponderable, a finer sense of a nation relaunched, albeit in a time of economic doldrums that could yet becalm its renewal.
Children are guided rather than explicitly directed from one step to another — from mud pie making to hand washing, for instance — through song, because song, or soft song specifically, is understood to becalm.
The Prime Minister instructed Dyikanbayev to becalm the population and journalists of the country as the issue had been solved.
Examples from Classical Literature
I am making a sail according to your lordship's plan, to becalm the hull of the ship, but want sailcloth for completing it.
An imprisoned man who asks for an Italian book to becalm his fever may be safely presumed to know that language.
Ships are generally obliged to be towed into the harbor, in consequence of the high points which tower high, and becalm them.
One sail is also said to becalm another when the wind is aft.
Under two lower topsails and a reefed foresail the barque seemed to race with a long, steady sea that did not becalm her in the troughs.
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