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Sentence Examples Quietude is a similarly becalmed sonic vista of placid sine-waves, nervous clicks and lithe atmospheric details. On the way home between Sardinia and Corsica the boat is becalmed and Newman writes a poem. Unlike the previous Thursday where the fleet was becalmed, there was plenty of wind with some heavy gusts. On reaching the Bay of Biscay the wind died down and we were becalmed for 9 days. Whitwell Harbour's becalmed shelter therefore came as a blessed relief, and I rattled off the boat as rapidly as possible. Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce. Menelaus recounts his own journey and tells how he was becalmed for twenty days. This would give them leeway to rest during days when it was against them, or they were becalmed with no wind at all. 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. And, when the ship becomes becalmed, mutinous impulses begin to rumble beneath the surface. According to analyst reports this is one of the few growth segments in the otherwise becalmed server market. A woman reads in a becalmed rowing boat, her beehive hairdo and goggle glasses making her look like an exotic animal. There are some laughs to be had here, but they are islands in a becalmed ocean. Conversely, the 'ambient' tracks float in amorphous realms of drifting waves, each composition conjuring a realm of becalmed bliss. The volunteer-crewed lifeboat was launched just after 9pm and reached the becalmed vessel, Stride, at 11.10 pm. One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas. He trained his binoculars on a suspicious cluster of becalmed motorboats a half-mile off through the haze. There are three pivotal points where the camera eddies around a becalmed Johnny who seems ready to disintegrate. It began as a routine supply mission to the front lines, in a volatile but largely becalmed city. There you are and there the ball is, and there's the net billowing ever so gently, like the sail of a becalmed ship. Show More Sentences High above, sheets of material hang like sails on a becalmed Spanish galleon. And so in a relatively becalmed August, the big news was that Cook made a simple call on the presidential race. But there is still a mood of becalmed apprehension in many sectors of the economy. The latest ugly campaign episode comes as new polls show the front-running parties becalmed in the eye of the hurricane-like rhetoric. 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. 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. 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. On the way, they were becalmed on the Island of the cattle of the sun. 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. At seven for two, with victory not even a chimera, the Mexican waves from a near-capacity crowd that had retained a sense of humour were abruptly becalmed. No natural light ever pierces these dark recesses of my flat, neither does the soft spring breeze ever waft gently through their becalmed atmosphere. The reform of Federal human rights legislation appears becalmed, although there may be an opportunity yet to intervene before the die is cast. The reason we have not achieved this is simply that after we agreed on the framework agreement in July 2004, the talks were simply becalmed. So to avoid being becalmed, they will have to skim the storm zones in formation, but without entering these zones completely. Showers bring with them wind and then after there is a lull where we sit becalmed. It is written that on October 11, 1492, while becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of the crewmen picked a rose branch from the water. We have been becalmed for a long time, so now the game begins again we hope. We get going early to beat the williwaws and are soon becalmed. America's online stockbrokers, becalmed by slow trading volumes, have been agitating the markets with merger talks among themselves. 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. Show More Sentences 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. Unfortunately, what appears to have happened just now is that the wind has been taken out of the sails of the whole reform which has become becalmed. This paralysis has set in even though the president surrendered to Democrats on the most controversial part of his proposal, support for school vouchers. The rest of Mr Bush's agenda looks equally becalmed. While the ship was becalmed in Recherche Bay, convicts allowed on deck attacked their guards and took control of the brig. After the last election the worst killing sprees took place in the Rift Valley in the country's west, but ethnic displacement and the Kikuyu-Kalenjin alliance has becalmed the region. And governments are unwilling or unable to provide another burst of stimulus. In sailing terms, it is rather like the doldrums, a patch of ocean where boats become becalmed. Then the ship was becalmed and drinking water was rationed. Examples from Classical Literature The Druid was so near that, unless becalmed, there appeared no doubt about her getting in. But the Richlings were becalmed in theirs, and, not knowing it, were satisfied. They had kept their course too far from shore, and were becalmed in consequence. It was necessary to build them high, in order that the sails might not be becalmed by the houses. Should they be becalmed under the cliffs, they might find it impossible to stem it. Gomera, but were becalmed and had made only thirty miles by the night of the 8th. Here she got becalmed, and while in that condition two boats approached her from the shore. Early this year a Celebes trader becalmed in a prau was watching him at it. At dawn after the battle, we lay becalmed to the east of the Isle of Canna or between that and Isle Eriska in the chain of the Long Island. The Apostle is lying becalmed inside the point, and her boats are out to wing. And when you get in the doldrums, or becalmed, it stirs up your blood. Not even the flopping, bellying mainsail overhead, as the Arangi rolled becalmed, could draw a glance of quizzical regard from him. They were becalmed and were twenty-five days making the voyage. For several months Crosson waited about, becalmed in the doldrums. On the 16th of January, the Nautilus seemed becalmed only a few yards beneath the surface of the waves. Columbus's becalmed caravels, slowly pushed backward by the Caribbean seaweed, become a metafictional metaphor for the dialogic reconstruction of Columbus's complete life. If seas can becalmed and skies can beclouded, can rain befallen? The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. Find more words! 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