Example Sentences

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Calmed, he leaves the office and realizes, “He himself will be all right. Maybe that is all that can be salvaged.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2020

Calmed by police, Victor Coradi announced he would try to go on living.

From Time Magazine Archive

Calmed by the notion that he was asleep, Gregor began to gauge his fall.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Now while I write, the wonder clothes the vale, Calmed every wind and loaded every grove; And looking through the implicated boughs I see a gleaming radiance.

From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

Calmed though he had felt a few moments ago, it cannot be denied that Pearson was aghast.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson