Sentence examples for as lull from inspiring English sources

The laterals in a word such as lull might more properly be called lateral approximants, in that the airstream passes out freely between the sides of the tongue and the roof of the mouth without a turbulent airstream being produced.

You are lulled by the mundane nature of it all, or as lulled as you can be given Denis Mariotte's howling soundscape — which seems the result of an unholy union between machines and powerful forces of nature — and the wind machines that keep the mirrors swaying and the performers' hair and costumes wildly blowing.

There's something audacious and impressive about the way Hollow attempts to strike a weird balance between menace and calm, the vocals as lulling as the staccato backing is unsettling.

Stockhausen had lived in California in the mid-sixties, and, although "Stimmung" is organized in a very Germanic, mathematical manner, the piece's effect can be as lulling and hallucinatory as the improvisatory minimalist works of Terry Riley or La Monte Young.

"There are challenges," Weisberg told HuffPost, "such as lulls that sometimes last 15 minutes where people are just sitting in the ocean.

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the composition of the album and stated "There's something audacious and impressive about the way "Hollow" attempts to strike a weird balance between menace and calm, the vocals as lulling as the staccato backing is unsettling.

I'm as easily lulled as the next person into basking in five minutes of reflected national glory.

"The factions will be committed to the lull as long as Israel is," Mr. Bardaweel said.

Mahmoud Zahar, a senior leader of the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, said, "We declare our commitment to the lull as long as the occupation does".

"We declare our commitment to the lull as long as the occupation does," said Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader, referring to Israel.

Recently, I've been in a bit of a lull as far as video games are concerned.