Quiet spells

Usage examples of lulls.

Because its presence doesn't make a damn bit of difference to Snub, and it lulls the Empire into a false sense of security.

According to the briefing we were given, your computers can predict lulls in the weather, moments of calm in the storms.

Because its presence doesn't make a damn bit of difference to Shub, and it lulls the Empire into a false sense of security.

During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps -- lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly) -- which now I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly -- (for my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming, and my brain more and more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions.

A cloud of sea fowl hovered along the face of the cliffs, so high overhead that their cries were inaudible in the lulls of the breakers.

Fortunately I found my friend, Davenport, the managing editor, at his desk and ready to talk in the infrequent lulls that came in his work.

Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind tin lulls across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.

Wade was terrified to speechlessness by the shelling, and even when lulls came he clung to Scarlett’s skirts, too terrified to cry.

But Ben had realized long ago that this added contact during lulls was an efficient way to get feedback on treatments, and to demonstrate that the results of his treatments were of great concern to him, and, by extension, that his pa­tients were, too.

Even during the rare lulls, they’d never been able to tear them­selves away from me, their only child.

Mrs Pratt had unkind things to say about the Germans during the lulls but was more interested in talking about the cinema.