How to Use the calm/lull before the storm in a Sentence

the calm/lull before the storm

noun phrase
  • That big project was sort of the calm before the storm.
    Alva Claire, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But, for many, the next few days mark the calm before the storm.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 May 2021
  • Here's to the calm before the storm of being parents to two gremlins.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Right now is the calm before the storm, Housewives faithful.
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • This weekend at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is the calm before the storm.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But is the Bay Area, hit hard at the end of the U.S. winter surge, once again experiencing the calm before the storm?
    Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2021
  • But the atmosphere outside is hardly the calm before the storm.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2022
  • What to expect into Tuesday Monday is expected to be the calm before the storm.
    Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But many expect this to be merely the calm before the storm, with the Fed taking an increasingly hawkish tone.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But why not skip all that debauchery and visit sunny Palm Springs this month instead, during the calm before the storm?
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Despite missile attacks that have punctuated the winter lull and fierce fighting on the eastern front lines, there is a sense that this may have been the calm before the storm.
    Josh Lederman, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Despite the track’s turbulent title and ride from recording studio to Recording Academy, Nascent learned to embrace the calm before the storm.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2022
  • While the pressure on North American ports is currently abated and logistics constraints eases, this is the calm before the storm.
    Lora Cecere, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Majors is experiencing the calm before the storm in his already illustrious acting career.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022

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