CALMLY in a Sentence

Learn CALMLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

272 example sentences for CALMLY, such as:

1. The main thing is to stay calm.
2. In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.
3. The government has appealed for calm.
4. Under his apparent calm lay real anxiety.
5. Responding to the news, Mr Watt appealed for calm.

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 Meanings and Examples of CALMLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
calmly
 ad.  with self-possession (especially in times of stress)
 ad.  in a sedate manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She's a sly, stupid creature, Scarlett rejoined calmly, unimpressed by his uproar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  "That must be the last of the ammunition trains," Rhett said calmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Little close-set eyes, squinting in the sun glare, calmly surveyed the house from beneath the visor of his tight blue cap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  "You can have my horse," said Frank calmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  "I'll do nothing of the kind," he returned calmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  "But your heart warn't broken," Will said calmly and, picking up a straw from the bottom of the wagon, he put it in his mouth and chewed slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Frank had listened to this statement calmly too, and had asked no questions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  She paused a moment, glancing about her, calmly taking the measure of her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
9  Her head cleared; she was able to look calmly in at her husband and the farmwife while they undressed the wailing man, got him into a clean nightgown, and washed his arm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  These business men, from their crushing labors of sitting in an office seven hours a day, would calmly recommend that I have a dozen children.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
12  Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the Lakeman had slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool; calmly looking on, he thought his own thoughts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
13  Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever and anon glancing from the deep wrinkles there to the lines in his own hand.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
14  Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
15  "Uncas will stay," the young Mohican calmly answered in English.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
16  Even at the end, when cancer racked his body, he was calm and cheerful.
17  I thought I would remain calm, but when I was confronted with/by the TV camera, I became very nervous.
18  There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.
19  She was trying to remain calm, but there was a distinct edge to her voice.
20  In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.
21  They may feel tired and though outwardly calm, can be irritable.
22  The government has appealed for calm.
23  Calvin remained outwardly calm, but inside he was very angry.
24  When her labor was difficult, the doula consistently remained calm and caring.
25  Under his apparent calm lay real anxiety.
26  The main thing is to stay calm.
27  Forgetting someone doesn't mean never think of him, but thinking of him with a calm heart.
28  Responding to the news, Mr Watt appealed for calm.
29  The country needs a period of calm without more surges of radical change.
30  The last five years have seen a period of relative calm.