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How to use lull in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Lull means a period of rest or soothing. Example: “The storm lulled.”

Examples of lull by meaning

nounA period without waves or wind.

  • The air under each cloud has spent time near the surface, has been slowed and backed by friction—it is a lull.2016, David Houghton, Fiona Campbell, Wind Strategy, not paginated

nounAn extended pause between sets of waves.

  • It is advisable to leave the surf zone during the lull between sets of larger waves, waiting outside the surf zone for a lull.1992, John Warlaumont, The Noaa Diving Manual, page 19-19

verbTo become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

  • The storm lulled.

verbTo give somebody a false sense of security so that an unpleasant situation takes the person by surprise.

  • They lulled us into thinking we still had time.

More sentences with lull

  • But it was only the convivial lull that was to precede a post-prandial storm.2011, H. R. Haweis, Music and Morals, page 242. From the entry inter pocula
  • It is high and, after the gentle slopes lull you, hard to climb.2005 April 9, “The battered face of the Sphinx”, in Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry Toblerone
  • If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.2004, Arthur Gelb, City Room, page 154. From the entry pipe
  • At last the soporiferous fumes of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose.1910, Various, International Short Stories= French. From the entry soporiferous
  • I’m being lulled, bardically lulled, like a drunken baron at a long feast table, pork grease shining on my chin.2022 September 16, James Parker, “An Ode to Being Read To”, in The Atlantic. From the entry bardically
  • The meeting was held during the postlunch lull at the Gotham Bar and Grill in New York, where Mr.2007 July 24, Joe Sharkey, “Somewhere in the Skies, Fish Ceviche Is Being Served”, in New York Times. From the entry postlunch
  • After two months there was a lull on the waterfront, seagulling declined, and I had to seek another job.1997, Phillip Knightley, A Hack's Progress, J. Cape, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry seagulling
  • The thatched-rooved, mud houses were set on fire during clashes in Deopar village after a 48-hour lull in the fighting.1983 March 2, “More killed in new Assam clash with Muslim immigrants”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 8, column 1. From the entry rooved
  • Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 36. From the entry policy
  • I decide to leave the window open and climb back into bed, hoping the shushy waves of traffic will lull me to sleep.2008, Jennifer Ziegler, How Not to Be Popular, page 160. From the entry shushy
  • With its musical instrument, an inkingi, a stringed instrument, it lulls the guards into a deep sleep, and then the inkalimeva drinks the water.2006, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, Ndumiso Bhotomane, South African Voices: A Long Time Passed, volume 1, page 139. From the entry inkalimeva
  • However wary you are, however circumspect, however suspicious, in seven long years the abominable tranquility of an essentially petit-bourgeois existence will lull your vigilance.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry petit-bourgeois
  • Lulling music washed around me, soft voices announced the rising and falling of airliners, huge screens clicked soothingly through neverending arrivals and departures.1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New…. From the entry neverending
  • Then following a lull in January, incidents picked up again after the Chinese New Year, spreading south to Tancheng and further east to Fei county.1987, Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188. From the entry Tancheng
  • The lull gave Johnson a chance to show such critics as Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J.1965 May 28, “The Lull That Lapsed”, in Time. From the entry all wet
  • The poker sandbagger would, upon being dealt a fantastic hand, delay upping the ante in order to lull the other players into a false sense of security.2011, Patricia Hannigan, Golf Girl's Little Tartan Book. From the entry sandbagger
  • Not all squeeze tactics rely on overt coercion, of course, as a squeezer's scheme sometimes can be achieved by lulling his squeezee into a false sense of security.1985, Forest Hodge O'Neal, Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal's Oppression of Minority Shareholders, page 85. From the entry squeezer
  • 'Rome's a very chiaroscuro city, I've always thought,' said Tom Richardson eventually, sensing that the lull in the conversation was going to be a protracted one.1983 -, Max Davidson, The Wolf, page 68. From the entry chiaroscuro
  • But on Thanksgiving Day, a midholiday lull settled in, and the airlines still operating were easily able to take up the slack created by the walkouts.1958 November 29, “Nonstriking Airlines Set For Surge Of Passengers”, in East Liverpool Review, volume 80, number 31, page 1. From the entry midholiday
  • It is this help that the present book attempts to give, and the moment of its appearance, during a partial lull of excavation, is an opportune one.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vii. From the entry spadework

Meaning of lull

  1. noun A period of rest or soothing.
  2. noun A period of reduced activity; a respite.
  3. noun A period without waves or wind.

Full definition of lull

Questions about lull in a sentence

How do you use lull in a sentence?
Lull is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The storm lulled.”
What is a short sentence with lull?
“The storm lulled.”
What does lull mean?
Lull means a period of rest or soothing.

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