lull

It isn’t like soccer where you can just boot the ball around for 45 minutes and lull your overmatched opponent to sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Wholesale prices had been basically unchanged in the prior two months after a brief lull in the U.S.-Iran conflict resulted in cheaper oil.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The lull in violence that began in June had allowed hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return home.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Unlike a simple checklist, it felt like the app was doing everything in its power to lull you into spending more time there.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

How could her lull have simply stopped working?

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Naturally, this created relative lulls in the set for those newer to the singer and a welcome chance to catch a breath.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Elsie, after weeks of conversational lulls, started using the phone daily to coordinate French braids with soccer teammates and inquire about practice times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

But the IPO market had its fair share of fits and starts in 2025, with Liberation Day-related volatility and a fall government shutdown temporarily leading to lulls in new issuance activity.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

As families gather for the holidays, lulls in the festivities provide a calm, unhurried opportunity to have heartfelt talks.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025

They ask the perfect questions to keep the conversation flowing, warding off any lulls.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"People potentially get lulled into a sense of security when the intensity of sunlight is weak and they spend too long outdoors without adequate protection. We have shown that is a problem for skin damage."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

But they cannot afford to be lulled into a false sense of security.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

After an initial splurge on travel and entertainment, retirees are often lulled into a sense of complacency because their spending tends to decrease during the first decade after leaving the workforce.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Many companies “have been kind of lulled to sleep on the tariff front for the last 5 months,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

She lulled him to sleep so that she might always find him and caress him as she pleased.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

And yet, at 80 mph, wind noise is reduced to a lulling hush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

So it was surprising that Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, started hosting a YouTube show, the purpose of which appears to be lulling viewers to sleep.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025

Combined, they mean lulling the opponent into complacency, Mr. Pillsbury said.

From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023

Was it “Chimeras,” the electronic musician guessed by phone before a recent Berlin performance, selecting a 2006 piece where prickles of electric guitar scatter like a galaxy around a lulling beat?

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

He missed the lulling lub-dub but found staying awake in class and paying attention to Miss K much easier.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary