Verb (used with object) : The schooner was becalmed in the horse latitudes for two weeks. From Dictionary.com.
But there was a feeling his campaign was becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Labour leadership race: Good for the candidates, bad for the party] Reference
To add to the horror of the situation they were becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Snell Zee Post, Dirk Morris, master; and after being becalmed off. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
He had seen us before the fog shut down, and knew that we were becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
He seemed placid, even becalmed, but Ronald Reagan swept over the nation like a wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Book On Reagan] Reference
When I again awoke, it was long after sunrise, and we were lying completely becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
All things around and in front of her were still becalmed, deferred by a force unseen. From Wordnik.com. [Son of Man (Novel Excerpt)] Reference
Our lying becalmed here wasn't such a bad thing after all -- and here comes the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The Adriatic Sea, becalmed in summer, makes for great swimming, even quite a way from shore. From Wordnik.com. [Escape To The Balkans] Reference
I now lay quite becalmed, and began to feel that a man can die of cold as well as of drowning. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
On the other side of the island, about ten miles from the shore, there lay a large brig becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
To the southward lay the van ships under De Bougainville becalmed, with no enemy in range of them. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
However, we rode out the storm, and then, two or three days later, we lay becalmed for three weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The Perot camp seems more becalmed than desperate, still working on the next stage of the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: Back In Tension City] Reference
I like to believe that in the last days, the restless spirit found contentment, that he was becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg] Reference
Were they to be becalmed when it was so vitally necessary to get the stranger to a doctor immediately?. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
"We are becalmed," he continued, and truly the bits of paper flung out floated idly round the balloon. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
In less than an hour all five vessels were becalmed; and when night fell three miles separated the Good. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Busy with my task, I paid no attention to the yacht; but still took it for granted, that she lay becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
The ship had been becalmed the day before, and the Malay proa was in sight, evidently with evil intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
She has been becalmed today some distance away, but the men decided to go off to her for the bags of flour. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
We made so little headway with oars that I thought the difference trifling, whether we pulled or were becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
It happened however, that they were becalmed off Dungally, so that Captain Woodward could observe its situation. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
It was a lovely day when they set sail, but before long the wind fell, and they were becalmed off a small island. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Towards noon, a sailor from aloft pointed out to our observation a vessel at a distance, also, of course, becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
The ship was becalmed, and we hoped the other islanders would go out to her, but they didn't seem inclined to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
For three days all went well, but on the fourth the ship was becalmed and the sails flapped lazily against the masts. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Off the mouth of the harbor, the icebergs went sailing by, so white, so stately, so slow, like a fleet almost becalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
Harun-al-Rashid; savory; repast; becalmed; Maharaja; rarities; aloes; sequin; roc; desert; Arabic; sovereign; tradition. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
Never, surely, did the cry fall upon more welcome ears, save and except those of men becalmed in a boat upon the open sea. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
His ships were scattered, for the sails could not keep up with the oars, and Condulmiero's huge Venetian carack was becalmed off. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
After touching at many places where we sold or exchanged goods, we were becalmed near a small island which looked like a green meadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
We meet with rocks, shelves, and sands; sometimes we are becalmed, and at other times we find ourselves tossed and buffeted by a storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
She lay still becalmed and if the spout threatened to board her, there would be no possible chance of the vessel's escaping destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
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