"calm" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After three years of a tense calm, people in the former peace zone have been engulfed in this ferocious war; thousands are fleeing.
- One law student who spoke in a plaza in the wealthy community called Altamira said the seething strife has left a "tense calm, a dangerous calm," on the streets.
- An ominously tense calm followed four days of intensifying clashes between the peacekeepers and fighters from the insurgent Revolutionary United Front.
- Amid a tense calm the street leading to the president's office was blocked off by security forces on Sunday.
- The interim police force took over the police station, and its spokesman said shooting had stopped and there was a "tense calm" in the slum.
- A tense calm prevails, but the two sides remain wary adversaries, poised for a resumption of hostilities at any time.
- Today witnesses said a tense calm hung over Lhokseumauwe, with no reports of mob violence.
- And yet amid that tense godless calm the high bare boughs of all the trees in the yard were moving.
- They were characterised by tense calm.
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