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Example sentences for "lulls"

Lexicographically close words:
lull; lullabies; lullaby; lulled; lulling; luma; lumbago; lumbar; lumber; lumbered
  1. 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.

  2. We seemed to hear the wailing through the loudest of the wind, and in the lulls were sure of it.

  3. The wind was still raving about the house, with lulls between its charges.

  4. Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.

  5. When Conscience lulls her sated snake, And Tyrants sleep, let Freedom wake.

  6. Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose, 403.

  7. Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose By his proboscis that he is all nose.

  8. With the first dusk of this night there came sudden lulls in which the blizzard seemed to have exhausted itself.

  9. The rat-tap-tap of it came in one of those lulls of the storm which Jolly Roger had begun to dread.

  10. Wan water from the border hills, Dear voice from the old years, Thy distant music lulls and stills, And moves to quiet tears.

  11. When Time, or soon or late, shall bring The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead, Oblivion!

  12. Gained one reach more in working, when from the sudden gusts of wind and lulls we were obliged to bring up.

  13. And gives our rulers undesign’d applause; Tells how their conduct bids our wealth increase, And lulls us in the downy lap of peace.

  14. She turned her back on me and hurried off, and her insolence, that indignant reply which she had given me, rejoiced me to the depths of my heart, like soothing balm that lulls the pain.

  15. In the West Sable night lulls the day on her breast.

  16. Sweet and clear from a long-drawn singing bow it came--a commingling of love and peace and beauty he had once heard a great contralto sing: "In the West Sable night lulls the day on her breast.

  17. Whenever one of these lulls occurred, the men would haul upon the line, gradually getting nearer and nearer to the fish, until they were within fifty feet of his tremendous flukes.

  18. In the course of the morning, the officers on board both schooners, profiting by lulls and clear moments, had got so many views of the land from aloft, as to be fully aware of their respective situations.

  19. This is the question with which every young woman beguiles her fancy; this is the common but seductive opiate, with which inclination lulls reason.

  20. No youth swells up to make them leap And cry against the storms; No blossom lulls their age asleep, Each wind brings sad alarms.

  21. She could count its pulse-beats in the lulls which were growing shorter.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lulls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.