Example sentences for: calmly

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

  • President Clinton's problem with Monica Lewinsky made the front-page lead in several British newspapers under dramatic headlines but was reported more calmly on inside pages across most of the rest of the world.

  • This was one time I felt exactly like him,as we three stood pondering our dilemma calmly, maturely.And I did again when he yelled I'm scaredas the clunker with wide headlights and bad muffler("Hell Wagon" or "Devil's Dream" no doubt inscribed on the fender--voted Car Of The Year by escaped convicts and serial killers)glided like a crocodile toward our throbbing, imported taillightsand idled there.

  • Circuit breakers afford investors and traders the time to sell stock calmly, rather than dump it in a panic.

  • It is impossible to measure how many more civilians who descended to the ground floors would have died but for the NYPD and PAPD personnel directing them-via safe exit routes that avoided jumpers and debris-to leave the complex urgently but calmly.

  • The WP lead reports that an Arab man arrested by Pakistan authorities the day of the Kenya bombing, because of his presentation of a questionable passport after he came off a flight from Nairobi, has acknowledged "calmly and proudly" being a member of the seven-man team that pulled off the Nairobi embassy attack.


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