composure

in a sentence

This time I climbed only 120 feet above the bergschrund before lack of composure and the arrival of a snow squall forced me to turn around.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The judge regained her composure.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

"When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him." I was kind of crying by then. "And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls' shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed." ... After he'd recovered his composure, he added, "I would cut the bit about seeing through girls' shirts."  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Thomas, still a bit queasy from the Changing, forced himself to take a second and gain his composure.  (source) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

"It's good to be back," Call said, covering the old man's discomposure.†  (source) Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved, 1981

I sat quietly while he forced himself back into composure.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of welcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her coolness.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881

It took some time to regain my composure.  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of welcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her coolness.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1, 1881

"I'm fine," she said, regaining her composure and keeping the subject on track.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember, 1999

Waiving, therefore, his privilege of self-defence, he regarded only his discomposure.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886

For a brief moment the onrush of the egwugwu was checked by the unexpected composure of the two men.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

But the next moment he was himself disturbed by it, and showed discomposure; for this was the only service he had been permitted to do with his own hands during the meal, and he did not doubt that he had done a most improper and unprincely thing.†  (source) Mark Twain, The Prince and The Pauper, 1881