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.