Sentence examples for tense lull from inspiring English sources

Notably, the decision to flood the riot-affected neighborhoods with police officers, the step that eventually stanched the momentum of the street mobs and brought a return to a tense lull that now prevails across the country, came only after the prime minister returned from Italy.

In the opening sequence of "Ryan," Steven Spielberg set a certain standard of crazed violence, but Woo has a talent for military mayhem, too, alternating scenes of furious, close-in combat, sometimes hand-to-hand, with exhausted lulls and tense periods of waiting.

Thousands are expected for the demonstration Saturday in Strasbourg, which remains tense after the violence Thursday despite the lull on Friday.

Gunter emerged from the water victorious after some tense moments during a heat that included a long lull between waves.

With the sudden lull, after weeks of being at the eye of a political and legal storm, "I'm more tense then I've been in my entire life," a lawyer for Mr. Bush said this afternoon.

Unseasonally warm weather has combined with a lull in shopping in the wake of the Black Friday discount day in late November to create a tense finish to the year's most important retail period.

Lovely lull.

There followed an awkward lull.

There was no lull there.

There was a lull now.

Probably tense.