the lull before the storm

lull | American Dictionary

lull
verb[ T ]
us/lʌl/
to cause someone to feel calm, sleepy, or safe:
The music lulled the infant to sleep.
We were all lulled into thinking they wouldn't do anything.
lull
noun[ C ]
us/lʌl/
a period of quiet or reduced activity:
a lull in the conversation

lull | Business English

lull
noun[ C ]
uk /lʌl/us
a short period of calm in which little happens:
After the summer lull, business has picked up again this month.
a lull in sthI waited for a lull in the proceedings to pop out for a quick cigarette.

Examples of lull

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Responses during active network states (spindle waves) were significantly different from those occurring during silent states (interspindle lulls).
The unwary will be lulled into a false sense of security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
The narrator makes it plain ("for instance") that he is rendering conversations and not lulling the reader unaware directly into live discourse.
Enumerated commas and semi-colons fortify this impression by creating elongated, lulling syntactic structures that are reminiscent of those found in nursery rhymes.
Over the 1990s, the booming economy and stock market may have lulled people into a sense of complacency that good times were here to stay.
Finally, in most cases, the pursuit of non-agricultural activities is a year-round phenomenon, subject primarily to fluctuations in local purchasing power rather than seasonal lulls in the agricultural work calendar.
The concentration of traditional language teaching upon literary texts and newspaper articles has perhaps lulled course designers, teachers, and students into a false sense of security.
There was a feeling that something was in the air, that it was the lull before the storm.
At midnight, there was an abrupt lull and the water drum was put away.
He believes that "worldwide we are beginning to see hesitant signs of recovery, but the lull on the domestic market continues".
In spite of this lull, unit labour cost was very high by past standards.
Only the advent of the rainy season brought about a lull.
Did it lull her subjects into a false sense of openness ?
A lullaby is a vocal piece of music specifically designed to lull a child to sleep by using a repeated formula.
A lull (inter-epizootic interval) follows the epizootic, and raccoon rabies is markedly reduced and may seem to disappear.
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