Example sentences for: calm

How can you use “calm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Post reports that during commercial breaks, while the startled Clintonites held whispered conferences, aides fanned out into the noisy parts of the arena to calm those (numbering about 200, guesses the Times ) chanting "We don't want your racist war."

  • For those whose taste or budget isn’t for precious metals and stones, there is a whole range of jewelry featuring semi-precious stones and street jewelry such as rings, earrings, toe rings, and though not strictly jewelry, worry beads — carried by most Greek men to calm the nerves — are very decorative.

  • Pointing this out doesn't change anything real, but perhaps it may help calm some of the fears being fostered by underemployed Japan-bashers who, like old cold warriors, have lately gone searching for new enemies.

  • The Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo likened West Lake to one of ancient China’s greatest beauties, Xizi — who was also calm, soft, delicate, and enchanting.

  • But still, I'd say to anyone earwigging this correspondence that it is worth going to Brooklyn, crossing the pontifical picket line, and breezing past the offal and Ofilis just for the clear, calm, meditative experience of Whiteread's Ghost . I've long been convinced that it is Whiteread's masterpiece (better than her short-lived House and the West Broadway watertower), but I'm coming round to realizing that it is a masterpiece on any terms.


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