lull

Object

• audience: Those first few minutes of last week's show had lulled the audience into a false sense of security.

Converse of object

• follow: An enlightening question and answer session followed a polite lull; the surgeons started to express curiosity and relief.
• end: The attacks ended a six-week lull in air strikes, which used to take place almost daily.
• experience: The lull experienced during 2005 resulted in an average of 20 weeks to sell a property.

Preposition: into

• sense: AEGON UK also says people should not be lulled into a false sense of security over state pension reforms.

Adjective modifier

• momentary: I only heard it because there had been a momentary lull in the barrage from the big guns.
• slight: When the luncheon hour drew near there came a slight lull in the uproar.
• brief: In the spring of 1942, there was a brief lull in fighting.
• temporary: The distractions of the World Cup are also likely to have caused what may be a temporary lull in buyer interest.
• relative: In 1944, the relative lull of the previous two years ended.
• short: He caught the sound of her breathing in a short lull in the storm's wailings.

Noun used with modifier

• summer: In days gone by, office workers had to struggle to find ways to occupy their time during a summer lull.

Preposition: before

• storm: It was but the lull before the fatal storm.

Infinitive complement

• sleep: Let your kids be lulled to sleep each night by the magical sounds of ocean waves.

Preposition: in

• fighting: Plate 47 An RUC officer takes a break during the evening lull in the fighting in the Bogside.
• proceeding: About 2 p.m. the Frenchmen dropped anchor and for some little time there was a lull in the proceedings.
• conversation: Next time there's a lull in the conversation, you'll know what to do.
• storm: The wind had not ceased, but there was a lull in the rain storm.
• battle: A lull in the battle Was it only this morning that we last stood on dry land?