flat calm

Frequency: 6.13.5 per million words

similar to dead calm, used to describe very still water

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Examples (10)

  • Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm.
  • The sailors were frustrated because the flat calm left their ship motionless.
  • We've had a perfect morning for fishing, thanks to the flat calm on the lake.
  • The reflection of the mountains is perfect in the early morning's flat calm.
  • The weather forecast predicts a flat calm, ideal for paddleboarding tomorrow.
  • After the raging storm, the ocean settled into an eerie flat calm.
  • A flat calm greeted the dawn, blurring the line between sea and sky.
  • Kayaking across the fjord was effortless in the absolute flat calm.
  • The ship's log noted a week of unnerving flat calm in the mid-Atlantic.
  • The water was a flat calm, like a sheet of glass stretching to the horizon.