How to Use the calm/lull before the storm in a Sentence

the calm/lull before the storm

noun phrase

• But, for many, the next few days mark the calm before the storm.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 May 2021
• Here's to the calm before the storm of being parents to two gremlins.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Monday's action could be described as the calm before the storm.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 28 July 2025
• The apparent quiet in Iraq could well turn out to be the calm before the storm.
  — Michael Knights, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
• And this lunch—celebratory shrimp and all—is the calm before the storm.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 7 July 2025
• Easy is comfortable in his 50th year, but for a man like him, this is just the calm before the storm.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• But the atmosphere outside is hardly the calm before the storm.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2022
• Some candidates are using the calm before the storm of the first debate to showcase other skills.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2023
• As with the current situation for laptops, now appears to be the calm before the storm.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 20 Dec. 2025
• This weekend at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is the calm before the storm.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• But many expect this to be merely the calm before the storm, with the Fed taking an increasingly hawkish tone.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• Monday will be the calm before the storm, with temperatures climbing to near 60 degrees.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2025
• Even with the multi-colored watch-warn-advisory map, today is really the calm before the storm.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2025
• What to expect into Tuesday Monday is expected to be the calm before the storm.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• The weekend before Thanksgiving often feels like the calm before the storm in college football.
  — Ralph D. Russo, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
• But why not skip all that debauchery and visit sunny Palm Springs this month instead, during the calm before the storm?
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2022
• Despite missile attacks that have punctuated the winter lull and fierce fighting on the eastern front lines, there is a sense that this may have been the calm before the storm.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2023
• The stews Danni and Diana are relieved to be getting along so well, even if to us viewers this is obviously the calm before the storm.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
• Majors is experiencing the calm before the storm in his already illustrious acting career.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022
• The Emmy winner shared her perspective on the calm before the storm in a minute-long video shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday evening.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• Despite the track’s turbulent title and ride from recording studio to Recording Academy, Nascent learned to embrace the calm before the storm.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2022
• Prior to the looks launching online, Gucci wiped its Instagram, a move that is tantamount to the calm before the storm in the fashion world and always acts as a prelude to something big.
  — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025