| 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. |
| Ships are generally obliged to be towed into the harbor, in consequence of the high points which tower high, and becalm them. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Prime Minister instructed Dyikanbayev to becalm the population and journalists of the country as the issue had been solved. |
