After a bit of a lull in the spring, Encore and other debt buyers are back at it, filing suits by the thousands every week, according to ProPublica’s analysis of state court filings.
Debt Collectors Have Made a Fortune This Year. Now They’re Coming for More.|by Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen|October 5, 2020|ProPublica
Amazon, in essence, created a new shopping holiday to get through the lull.
Amazon finally released the dates of 2020 Prime Day|Billy Cadden|September 28, 2020|Popular Science
For instance, Louisiana saw a large spike in infections, followed by a lull and then a second spike.
Population immunity is slowing down the pandemic in parts of the US|David Rotman|August 11, 2020|MIT Technology Review
For now, even the tragedy that left many local people in shock and heartbroken has not brought on a lull in the fighting.
In the Killing Fields of Ukraine with Children Who Saw the MH17 Horror|Anna Nemtsova|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But during that lull period, were you concerned that Disney was losing its mojo?
The ‘Maleficent’ Screenwriter Also Wrote ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’|Kevin Fallon|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“All right,” the Colonel would say whenever there was a lull.
The Night Vince Lombardi Lay Awake Brooding Over a 49-0 Win|W.C. Heinz|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Since then, there has been a lull in the fitness game genre.
Can I Lose Weight Playing Video Games?|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Following a lull in the shooting, Murphy came out and looked in the direction where he expected to see the shooter.
15 Rounds and Still Talking: Lt. Brian Murphy’s Story of the Oak Creek Massacre|Simran Jeet Singh|August 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But every now and then there is a lull; we become quiet, each absorbed in his own thoughts.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
Infatuated dreamer, think you it is the subsiding of the storm, and not rather the lull that precedes it?
Piccadilly|Laurence Oliphant
In a lull between the squalls he shouted to Spillane to examine the trolley of the car.
Dutch Courage and Other Stories|Jack London
We had had a very stiff time for six or seven hours and were resting during a lull in the firing.
500 of the Best Cockney War Stories|Various
Vainly he sought to lull it, to keep it earthward, to laugh at his own aspirations—useless labor!
My Recollections of Lord Byron|Teresa Guiccioli
British Dictionary definitions for lull
lull
/ (lʌl) /
verb
to soothe (a person or animal) by soft sounds or motions (esp in the phrase lull to sleep)
to calm (someone or someone's fears, suspicions, etc), esp by deception
noun
a short period of calm or diminished activity
Derived forms of lull
lulling, adjective
Word Origin for lull
C14: possibly imitative of crooning sounds; related to Middle Low German lollen to soothe, Middle Dutch lollen to talk drowsily, mumble