Sentence examples for composed once from inspiring English sources

England took no more wickets and when bad light stopped play after 17 overs South Africa, on 42 for one, had already extended their lead to 175 with Amla on 16, and Stephen Cook, highly composed once more, on 23.

For someone who is supposed to fidget endlessly as he waits to bat, he looked so utterly composed once he has arrived at the crease, oblivious to the perils of low-bouncing finger spin or the odd hostile remark from opponents.

I always try to remain composed, but once I just lost it.

She is a small woman, slender and composed, her once dark hair now streaked with gray: She speaks in short, clipped, precise sentences, in flawless, though heavily accented, English.

Lear burned his diary for that year, but Marstrand's portrait of him in pencil is by far the most sympathetic and sensual image of Lear anyone ever composed: for once he looks not silly but sensitive and handsome, even though, as shy men will, he hides behind glasses and affects newly sprouted facial hair.

Results for a BWR with a nominal power of 2027 MWt show a reduction of 135.30 kg HM of minor actinide per 18-month operating cycle when the whole core is composed of "once-through" MA-c fuel assemblies.

Once composed, the dancing is not improvised.

Once composed, Zimmerman and Ina were off on a light and airy journey through their program.

"Cottonwood Along the Colorado River, Garfield County, Colorado" (1978), one of the more beautifully composed photographs here, once again suggests an unwelcome human presence.

Is it quite believable that the captain has "more than once" composed letters to Lahardane, "but each time... drawn back when the moment of posting came"?

Several towns have apparently been won by parties representing refugees who once composed a majority of the residents but were driven out in ethnic cleansing.