lulled

Meaning

of Lull

Synonyms

Examples

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. Bill Gates

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! Alexander Pope

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. Fitz-Greene Halleck

Keep in mind that when the first A-bomb was developed as a defense against Nazism, moral objections and conscience of scientists and many others involved were lulled by assurances that everything would be over after production of a few bombs. Yevgeniy Chazov

At Woodlawn I Heard the dead cry: I was lulled by the slamming of iron, A slow drip over stones, Toads brooding wells. Theodore Roethke

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled. Martin Short