17 example sentences using lull.
Lull used in a sentence
Lull in a sentence as a noun
Not for me. I can get 10 hours of sleep at night but I'll still hit an afternoon lull post-lunch.
But, wait, isn't this a case of using a master password to lull the user... etc?
Given that the iPhone 5 will be announced next week, a lull in 4S sales isn't so strange.
They lull you into a false sense of security with their meatballs.
There is a lull before the announcement every year.
Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist.
If you don't want to lull your users into a false sense of security, then why doesn't the "save password?
It's a lull before dinner and they have some pizzas from lunch they've just kept warming up, so they grant you the discount.
The mission starting gentrifying well before 2010, there was just a bit of a lull at the end of the last decade.
Lull in a sentence as a verb
In my post-college lull, I was once in a major financial bind and ended up doing a brief stint as an academic ghostwriter.
There, on July 3, during a half-hour lull in his friend’s backyard before leaving for a concert, the solution suddenly came to him.
When I had graduated college I was in a 3 week lull between graduation and a job around January when I was struck with a kidney stone.
"The overwhelming success of Apples iPhone 4S has finally hit a lull" - about 2 weeks before it's due to be replaced as the flagship iPhone.
Tax avoidance, invasion of personal privacy, etc. all seem to be excuses by the government, created to lull their supporters.
However, while the rule in the post will be right in many cases, this list is incomplete, even for some common usages of this, and might lull folks into a false sense of security:1.
However these days, the very principles that the country was founded on are used as a shield to lull the well-fed and entertained population into a false sense of security about the benevolence of the government.
It's easy to lull myself into thinking "Well Matt, today is almost over so no sense in starting something, just work on $FOO tomorrow".Another trick that I've found that is highly effective for me is to "link" a producing behavior to a consuming one. I'm a bit of a TV addict so I made a deal with myself - I can watch as much TV as I want, as long as I'm doing it on the treadmill.
Lull definitions
a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise"
See also: letup
a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm"
See also: quiet
calm by deception; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security"
become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment"
make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"
See also: calm quiet tranquilize tranquillize tranquillise quieten still