Sentence examples for calm a from inspiring English sources

Placating protesting workers may help calm a tense situation.

This fact seems to help calm "a father who is suffering from sudden propulsion anxiety".

And it is told by the poor islanders to calm a frightened little girl.

A younger woman who looked ill was trying to calm a crying baby.

If I slowed it down, somehow, inside me, it would calm a lot of stuff.

His words and his bearing helped to calm a volatile situation.

One firefighter tried to calm a dozen people who were huddling on the roof.

Throughout the ordeal, officials did what they could to calm a jittery city.

Only this can calm a situation that risks spiraling out of control.

But analysts say another concern is how to calm a divisive political climate.

The comments came as the Vatican was trying to calm a scandal over sexual abuse by priests.