tranquil

in a sentence

I sometimes think Atticus subjected every crisis of his life to tranquil evaluation behind The Mobile Register, The Birmingham News and The Montgomery Advertiser.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

The car radio somehow still is attached to a battery and so Beethoven is broadcasting into the once-again tranquil February morning. [after the car accident]  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

And many more happy, tranquil days followed.  (source) E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, 1952

The rain rushes suddenly down... Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.  (source) William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, 1930

We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquillity in security in decency in peace.  (source) Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, 1939

(Resuming her tranquility) Emily, look at that star.  (source) Thornton Wilder, Our Town, 1938

...he said tranquilly:  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, 1954

Yet it is, nevertheless, a prospect of much charm that I unfold for you—long tranquillities during which you will observe a sunset as men in the outer world hear the striking of a clock, and with far less care.†  (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

As the guard laid a hand upon me, she piped up with the tranquilest confidence, and said: "God's wounds, dost thou covet destruction, thou maniac?†  (source) Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889

The tranquil Fogg waited, without betraying any emotion.  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:  (source) Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

For the first time in over a year Dexter was enjoying a certain tranquility of spirit.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams, 1922

Go to bed then and sleep tranquilly!  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862